State v. Langelier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““By the weight of recent authority by better reasoning, sodomy as used in connection with statutes prohibiting the crime against nature is interpreted in its broad sense and held to include all acts of unnatural copulation with mankind or beast. “It has frequently been held that it is sufficient merely to charge the accused with the crime of ‘sodomy,’ or of ‘the crime against nature,’ the crime being too well known and too disgusting to require other definition or further details or description. Wharton’s Crim.Proc.10th ed., V. 2, Secs. 1234 and 1243; 8 R.C.L. 335.” See also, 48 Am.Jur. Sodomy, Sec. 4, p. 551; 81 C.J.S. Sodomy § 4b, p. 373.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 45 Ala. App. 176 - Boyington v. State · State v. White

2. ““By reason of the vile and degrading nature of this crime, it has always been an exception to the strict rules requiring great particularity and nice certainty in criminal pleading, both at common law and where crimes are wholly statutory. It has never been the usual practice to describe the particular manner or the details of the commission of the act, and, where the offense is statutory, a statement of it in the language of the statute, or so plainly that its nature may be easily understood, is all that is required.” Id. at 321 , 8 A.2d at 897 (quoting Glover v. State, 179 Ind. 459 , 101 N.E. 629 (1913)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McParlin

3. ““Although forms used in criminal procedure in this state have generally included the allegation of force in an indictment of this character, yet it being unnecessary of proof, an indictment which covers all the material statutory terms is sufficient. (Emphasis supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. White