Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2025
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Strickland v. Washington · Herring v. New York · Westbrook v. Arizona · Spuehler v. State · Simpson v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Iwle presume, when a trial court operates as the trier of fact, that only competent and admissible evidence is considered in reaching a decision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Magnan v. State · Malone v. State“Here, [Long] considered what to do as he sat by his sleeping father with weapons in hand. He admitted that he knew his father would probably die. He stabbed his father twice in the chest with a dagger and when his father awoke he stabbed him three times in the neck with a knife. As his mother approached, [Long] told her to let him die.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where Appellant did not request closing argument or object when the trial court did not ask for the same, the right to argue is waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. CJW
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.