State v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2020
9 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 California v. Trombetta · Weatherford v. Bursey · Drew v. United States · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · United States v. Rose
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellants simply misconstrue the purpose and effect of the best evidence rule. The rule does not set up an order of preferred admissibility, which must be followed to prove any fact. It is, rather, a rule applicable only when one seeks to prove the contents of documents or recordings. FedREvid 1002. (quoting United States v. Gonzales-Benitez, 537 F.2d 1051, 1053 (9thCir.1976)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Downing“Jurors shall, at each adjournment of court, whether permitted to separate or kept in charge of officers, be admonished by the court as follows: You are reminded that you are not to discuss any aspect of this case among yourselves or with anyone else and that you should not form or express any opinion on the case until it is given to you for decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brim
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.