Langley v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2019
3 federal appellate · 14 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 McDaniel v. . Leggett · Woody v. Barnett · Plemmons v. Cutshall · Taylor v. . Carrow · Hyman v. . Edwards
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the cause came before the judge on appeal, he was not limited to a review of the action of the clerk. He was vested with jurisdiction to review the report in the light of the exceptions filed, hear evidence as to the alleged inequality of division, and render such judgment, within the limits provided by law, as he deemed proper under all the circumstances made to appear to him.” (Our italics) The opinion then cites these prior decisions: Tayloe v. Carrow, supra; McDaniel v. Leggett, 224 N.C. 806 , 32 S.E. 2d 602 ; Hyman v. Edwards, supra; Skinner v. Carter, 108 N.C. 106 , 12 S.E. 908 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Judge determines entire controversy; may recommit. Whenever a civil action or special proceeding begun before a clerk of a superior court is for any ground whatever sent to the superior court before the judge, the judge has jurisdiction; and it is his duty, upon the request of either party, to proceed to hear and determine all matters in controversy in such action, unless it appears to him that justice would be more cheaply and speedily administered by sending the action back to be proceeded in before the clerk, in which case he may do so."”
2 later decisions 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.