State v. Langston’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1974
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State ex rel. Hart v. Judge of First District Court · State v. Melies
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be' quite an anomalous doctrine to maintain that the state, although not allowed to appeal from an unsatisfactory sentence or to obtain an -amendment of the sentence by an answer to the defendant’s appeal, can obtain an increase of the sentence without either appealing or answering the defendant’s appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.