State v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Golphin (2000), State v. Zuniga (1987)
100 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Hankerson
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that, at the close of a voir dire hearing to determine the admissibility of a defendant's confession, the presiding judge should make findings of fact to show the basis of his ruling.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ny act evidencing “wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, cruelty, recklessness of consequences, and a mind regardless of social duty and deliberately bent on mischief, though there may be no intention to injure a particular person” is sufficient to supply the malice necessary for second degree murder. ... An act that indicates a total disregard for human life is sufficient to supply the malice necessary to support the crime of second degree murder.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen there is a material conflict in the evidence on voir dire, the judge must make findings of fact resolving any such material conflict.”
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.