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 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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.

In June 2025 the article “Impossibility defense” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Impossibility defense”, its content was written by 38 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 154 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in English Wikipedia and cited 446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #143553 in May 2008
• Global: #26437 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #360788 in July 2010
• Global: #112871 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, 2025 (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		29.7581
2	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		25.3951
3	English (en) Impossibility defense		24.058
4	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		23.4319
5	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		19.8448
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		13.7717
7	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		8.2964

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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		514 145
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		226 151
3	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		167 095
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		88 626
5	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		43 718
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		16 640
7	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		10 315

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		1 121
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		593
3	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		425
4	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		139
5	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		135
6	Korean (ko) 불능범		124
7	Swedish (sv) Otjänligt försök		17

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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		52
2	English (en) Impossibility defense		38
3	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		29
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		20
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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Impossibility defense		1
2	Korean (ko) 불능범		1
3	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		0
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		0
5	Japanese (ja) 不能犯		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		169
2	Korean (ko) 불능범		112
3	Chinese (zh) 不能犯		68
4	Italian (it) Reato impossibile		62
5	English (en) Impossibility defense		19
6	German (de) Untauglicher Versuch		16
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: #360788 07.2010

Global: #112871 05.2014

Best Rank

English: #143553 05.2008

Global: #26437 10.2016

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