Williams v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 1963
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arnold v. City of Spartanburg · Ex parte Jones · Town of Forest Acres v. Seigler · Lancaster v. Town Council of Brookland · Carson v. Coleman
Most-quoted passages
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““Sec. 47-12, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1952, requires as a prerequisite to such election that ‘a petition shall first be submitted to the council by a majority of the freeholders of the territory proposed to annex, * * *’. “The names on the petition when filed and acted upon by the annexing body could not be thereafter ratified; and it is evident that unless the questioned names are counted the petition is deficient in that it was not by a majority of the freeholders of the territory to be annexed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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