Darnell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Hageman (1982), Van Bell v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 55 Cal. 2d 252 - People v. Rojas · People v. . Jaffe · 23 Ariz. App. 37 - State v. Vitale · Jacobs v. State · Junior v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[E]ven though the actual commission of the substantive crime is impossible because of circumstances unknown to the defendant, he is guilty of an attempt if he has the specific intent to commit the substantive offense, and under the circumstances, as he reasonably sees them, he does the acts necessary to consummate what would be the attempted crime. It is only when the results intended by the actor, if they happened as envisaged by him, would fail to consummate a crime, then and only then, would his actions fail to constitute an attempt.” 92 Nev. at 681-82 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct but ineffectual act[s] toward the commission of the crime[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrod v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.