State v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
49
cited by 49 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
49 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wright v. Wright · Insurance Co. of North America v. United States Department of Labor · Ingalls v. Roosevelt County · Johnson v. Derwinski · State v. Alexander
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error is harmless when it 'could not reasonably have affected the result of the trial.' " (quoting State v. Key, 256 S.C. 90 , 180 S.E.2d 888 (1971) ) ); Langley , 334 S.C. at 647 -48 , 515 S.E.2d at 100 ("Even if the evidence was not relevant and thus wrongly admitted by the trial judge, its admission may constitute harmless error if the irrelevant evidence did not affect the outcome of the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hawes · State v. Johnson“Evidence is relevant if it has a direct bearing upon and tends to establish or make more or less probable the matter in controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cartwright
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