State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A. Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose. . . . . C. An attempt is a separate but lesser grade of the intended crime; and any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 106 So. 3d 1097 - State v. Maldonado · State v. Miller

2. “when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Miller · 975 So. 2d 3 - State v. Gonzalez

3. “to stop a person in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense and to demand that the person identify himself and explain his actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 973 So. 2d 104 - State v. Warmack