State v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2005
8 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.
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.
““From the case of Cable Piano Co. v. Southern Railway Co., 94 S. C. 143, 77 S. E. 868 , it would seem that the court favors the exercise of a wise discretion of the circuit judge in determining the merits of such motions in each individual case. In that case the court says that it will not do to say that in every case where incompetent testimony is received and later stricken out a new trial should be granted. Nor will it do to say that under these conditions a new trial should never be granted. The court concludes by saying that the character of the testimony, the circumstances under which offered, the nature of the case, other testimony in the case, and perhaps other matters, should be considered.” [167 S. C. 543, 166 S. E. 727 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. BRITT
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.