State v. Langford’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2010
6 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 408 So. 2d 1280 - State v. Johnson · State v. Gordon · State v. Hoffer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The maximum sentence was ten years. The sentencing transcript shows that the trial judge carefully considered the guidelines of C.Cr.P. Art. 894.1 in arriving at a sentence. He noted that there were no mitigating circumstances such as provocation or social considerations such as dependents to warrant a sentence without imprisonment. Likewise he commented that a lesser sentence would deprecate the seriousness of a crime of such magnitude and noted that much of the money taken by defendant was never accounted for.[ [12] ] Given this meticulous attention to Art. 894.1 the trial judge is entitled to broad discretion in sentencing. State v. Gordon, 444 So.2d 1188 (La.1984). We are not convinced that such discretion was abused. This assignment is meritless. 467 So.2d at 44.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence absolutely precludes the possibility that the bank consented to defendant's conduct. The bank was a victim of it's own mistakes, one in the erroneous coding of the account when it was first opened, and the other in the destruction of the computer printouts before they could be reviewed by a responsible official. The bank's intention was to allow no overdrafts on NOW accounts but this was frustrated by its unfortunate errors. That the bank consented to the defendant's taking $848,000 as some sort of loan is not a reasonable hypothesis when its refusal to loan defendant $225,000 one week before the account was opened is considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It is well settled that the recipient of the mistaken delivery who appropriates the property commits a trespass in the taking, and so is guilty of larceny, if, realizing the mistake at the moment he takes delivery, he then forms an intent to steal the property."”
1 later decision 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.