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← 243 Ala. 564 - Langham v. State

Langham v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1942

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 1991
most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1991 · most notably Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham (1963), 50 Ala. App. 480 - Albright v. State (1973)

39 state decisions

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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 Wilson v. State · Ex Parte Grimmett · Denson v. Realty Mortgage Co. · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Tally · McDowell 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"It was not necessary to aver how the drug was administered, or the particular way in which it affected him, nor that the drug was a poison or the quantity which was administered. The administration of a quantity of morphine is shown by this averment to have been the means employed to kill, and that is all that is required."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 357 So. 2d 1001 - Napier v. State
  2. ““A. B. unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, killed C. D., by shooting him with a gun or pistol, etc. (or by striking him with an iron weight, or by throwing him from the top of a house, or by pushing him into the river, whereby he was drowned, etc., as the case may be).” (emphasis added)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 50 Ala. App. 480 - Albright v. State
  3. “did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill (the deceased) by administering to him a quantity of morphine”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 357 So. 2d 1001 - Napier v. State

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.