State v. Langley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• refusing to reverse a murder conviction in light of the defendant’s failure to object, and strong, but circumstantial, evidence of guilt
• limiting category of murder cases to which victim’s state of mind is relevant to those involving claims of suicide, accident or self-defense
• stating sufficiency of the evidence standard for cases proven by circumstantial evidence
• the weight of the circumstantial evidence negated the possibility of accidental death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-12-21· cited 253×
• State v. Shurn
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-12-21· cited 205×
• State v. Bias
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-02-12· cited 110×
• State v. Bauer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-07-29· cited 92×
• State v. Flores
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-01-15· cited 92×
• State v. Crafts
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-07-06· cited 86×
• Rairdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-12-12· cited 76×
• State v. Race
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-03-21· cited 67×
• State v. DeWald
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-11-30· cited 56×
• State v. Ortlepp
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-02-15· cited 51×
• State v. Blasus
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-09-15· cited 49×
• State v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2001-06-07· cited 42×
• State v. Steinbuch
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-04-08· cited 38×
• State v. Hallmark
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2019-05-15· cited 36×
• State v. Moua Her
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-05-29· cited 26×
• State v. Ives
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-09-11· cited 25×
• Mnd v. Bmd
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1984-10-30· cited 20×
• State v. Dao Xiong
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-04-24· cited 14×
• State v. Waukazo
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-10-01· cited 11×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-06-20· cited 10×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• People v. Ireland
  California Supreme Court· 1969-02-28· cited 431×
• State v. Spreigl
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-12-17· cited 368×
• State v. Merrill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-12-01· cited 321×
• United States v. Donald Laverne Carlson, United States of America v. Gary Clarend Hofstad
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-01-18· cited 296×
• State v. Saldana
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-31· cited 204×
• State v. Wahlberg
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-08-08· cited 202×
• National Motor Freight Traffic Ass'n v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 170×
• State v. Billstrom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-03-10· cited 160×
• State v. Ulvinen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-12-17· cited 133×
• People v. Arcega
  California Supreme Court· 1982-09-30· cited 102×
• State v. Boyce
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1969-08-01· cited 81×
• State v. Hansen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-11-06· cited 79×
• Michael Lenza v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden Attorney General of the State of Missouri
  Eighth Circuit· 1981-12-02· cited 67×
• People v. Lew
  California Supreme Court· 1968-06-25· cited 66×
• Krueger v. Knutson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1961-10-06· cited 56×
• State v. Blanchard
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-02-05· cited 54×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-05-18· cited 48×
• State v. Olson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-03-14· cited 34×
• United States v. Wiley Rufus Ward
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-05-13· cited 32×