Impossibility defense

Impossibility defense - criminal defense occasionally used when a defendant is accused of a criminal attempt that failed only because the crime was factually or legally impossible to commit. Article “Impossibility defense” in English Wikipedia has 23.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Impossibility defense”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 162 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in English Wikipedia and cited 446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #116589 in July 2025
• Global: #26475 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #362470 in July 2010
• Global: #114708 in May 2014

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		29.8003
2	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		25.3213
3	English (en) Impossibility defense		23.8161
4	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		23.3991
5	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		19.4151
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		13.7011
7	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		8.269

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Impossibility defense" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		536 932
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		231 864
3	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		171 054
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		89 830
5	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		45 265
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		17 155
7	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		10 622

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Impossibility defense" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		937
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		368
3	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		159
4	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		151
5	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		93
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		30
7	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Impossibility defense" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		53
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		43
3	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		30
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		21
5	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		7
6	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		5
7	Korean (ko) 불능범		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Impossibility defense" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		0
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		0
3	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		0
4	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		0
5	Korean (ko) 불능범		0
6	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		0
7	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Impossibility defense" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		170
2	Korean (ko) 불능범		116
3	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		68
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		60
5	English (en) Impossibility defense		18
6	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		14
7	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Untauglicher Versuch
en	English Impossibility defense
it	Italian Reato impossibile
ja	Japanese 不能犯
ko	Korean 불능범
sv	Swedish Otjänligt försök
zh	Chinese 不能犯

Best Rank

English: #362470 07.2010

Global: #114708 05.2014

Best Rank

English: #116589 07.2025

Global: #26475 10.2016

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