People v. . Gardner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding defendant could not be guilty of completed crime of extortion where victim delivered property absent any fear from defendant’s threat, but could be guilty of attempted extortion due to his intent to instill fear
• factual impossibility is no defense to attempt because attempt “depends upon the mind and intent of the wrongdoer, not on the effect or result upon the person sought to be coerced”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

70 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Osborn v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-23· cited 418×
• United States v. Kelly
  Second Circuit· 1932-01-18· cited 97×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-04-15· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-04-07· cited 86×
• People v. Camodeca
  California Supreme Court· 1959-05-12· cited 81×
• Bass v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1950-06-14· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Brennan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-20· cited 64×
• United States v. Ivezaj
  Second Circuit· 2009-06-11· cited 63×
• United States v. Eggers
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1953-08-07· cited 63×
• State v. MORETTI
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-06-28· cited 61×
• People ex rel. Vogelstein v. Warden of the County Jail
  New York Supreme Court· 1934-03-07· cited 61×
• Schutt v. Macduff
  New York Supreme Court· 1954-01-02· cited 61×
• People v. Dioguardi
  New York Court of Appeals· 1960-07-08· cited 60×
• United States v. Thomas
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1962-09-07· cited 59×
• United States Ex Rel. Theodore R. Stovall v. Honorable Wilfred Denno, as Warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York
  Second Circuit· 1966-01-31· cited 52×
• State v. Ruck
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1906-03-06· cited 44×
• People v. Winship
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-11-23· cited 31×
• United States v. Furey
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1980-05-14· cited 27×
• Frensley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-02-23· cited 27×
• People v. Trepanier
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-01-29· cited 27×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. . Moran
  New York Court of Appeals· 1890-10-07· cited 86×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1862-02-15· cited 67×
• People v. Stites
  California Supreme Court· 1888-04-20· cited 43×
• Hamilton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1871-11-15· cited 34×
• Clark v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1888-04-26· cited 16×
• People v. Lawton
  New York Supreme Court· 1867-06-26· cited 15×