Langs v. Harder’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Page v. Welfare Commissioner (1976), 87 Wash. 2d 706 - Anderson v. Morris (1976)
24 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 104 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · Snell v. Wyman · State v. Stoddard · Lyman v. Adorno · State v. Vachon
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems sufficient to say that the Constitution we are supposed to expound gives us no authority to follow the figurative trails of metaphors like this.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“damages in personal injury cases are necessarily somewhat nebulous and cannot be ascertained with certainty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“essentially for the guidance of a jury or court in determining damages.”
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.