State v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Benson (1988), State v. Ashe (1985)
101 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 v. Fulcher · Calloway v. Ford Motor Company · 56 Ill. 2d 560 - People v. Queen · 58 Ill. 2d 171 - People v. Autman · State v. Hough
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No sir, the transcript is not available to the jury. The lady who takes it down, of course, is just another individual like you 12 people. And what she hears may or may not be what you hear, and 12 of you people are expected, through your ability to hear and understand and to recall evidence, to establish what the testimony was.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is error when the trial court refuses to exercise its discretion in the erroneous belief that it has no discretion as to the question presented.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . the requested evidence was testimony which, if believed, would have established an alibi for defendant.. . . Thus, whether the jury fully understood the alibi witness’ testimony was material to the determination of defendant’s guilt or innocence.”
3 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.