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← 334 S.C. 643 - State v. Langley

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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “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 passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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