Powell v. Langford’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Grant v. Arizona Public Service Co. (1982), Estate of Hernandez v. Bd. of Regents (1994)
7 federal appellate · 39 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 Lutfy v. Lockhart · Rain v. State · Strickland v. State · Donn v. Kunz · Schneider v. McAleer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant asked that a large number of special interrogatories be submitted to the jury, which request was refused by the court. Sections 21-1007, 21-1008 and 21-1009, A.C.1939, provide that special interrogatories may be submitted to the jury along with a general verdict. This, however, is entirely discretionary with the court, and no litigant may demand this as a matter of right.” Powell v. Langford, 58 Ariz. 281, 287 , 119 P.2d 230, 232 (1941).”
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.