State v. Lange’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably State v. Logue (1985), State v. Stumes (1976)
30 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 State v. Sinnott · State v. Belt · State v. Thomas · State v. Judge · People v. Vollmer
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““14. “The phrase ‘in a cruel and unusual manner’ as used in our law defining manslaughter in the first degree means that the commission of the homicide must be done with some excess of cruelty or refinement or unusual cruelty under the circumstances sufficiently marked to approach barbarity and to make it especially shocking, and the unusual character of the manner displayed in the killing must stand out as sufficiently unusual and unique or peculiar as to astonish and shock persons of normal sensibilities.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Knecht v. Weber · State v. Stumes“An information is sufficient if it employs the language of the statute or its equivalent, State v. Bayliss, 59 S.D. 585 , 241 N.W. 608 , State v. Thomas, 78 S.D. 568 , 105 N.W.2d 549 , State v. Judge, 81 S.D. 128 , 131 N.W.2d 573 , but it must at least in substance contain the necessary elements of the offense. State v. Paul, 41 S.D. 40 , 168 N.W. 739 ; State v. Taylor, 44 S.D. 332 , 183 N.W. 998 . (Emphasis added.) State v. Lange, supra at 636.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Provost“[t]hough the savageness of the assault, the deceased's pain and injuries coupled with the disparity between defendant's physical appearance and decedent's presented a spectacle of brutality, still [the Kansas Supreme Court] said the manner of death was very ordinary in a fight of this type and lacked the unusual quality contemplated by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knecht v. Weber
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.