Cox v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2014
20 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 Missouri v. Ross · Rein v. Johnson · Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority · Moseley v. Welch · Gaud v. Walker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The supreme legislative power of the State is vested in the General Assembly; the provisions of our State Constitution are not a grant but a limitation of legislative power, so that the General Assembly may enact any law not expressly, or by clear implication, prohibited by the State or Federal Constitution; a statute will, if possible, be construed so as to render it valid; every presumption will be made in favor of the constitutionality of a legislative enactment; and a statute will be declared unconstitutional only when its invalidity appears so clearly as to leave no room for reasonable doubt that it violates some provision of the Constitution. Santee Mills et al. v. Query et al. , 122 S.C. 158 , 115 S.E. 202 ; Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority et al. , 177 S.C. 427 , 181 S.E. 481 ; Ellerbe v. David et al. , 193 S.C. 332 , 8 S.E. (2d) 518 ; Pickelsimer v. Pratt et al. , 198 S.C. 225 , 17 S.E. (2d) 524 ; Moseley v. Welch , 209 S.C. 19 , 39 S.E. (2d) 133 ; Gaud v. Walker , 214 S.C. 451 , 53 S.E. (2d) 316 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holzwasser v. Brady“Bills appropriating money out of the Treasury shall specify the objects and purposes for which the same are made, and appropriated to them respectively their several amounts in distinct items and sections. If the Governor shall not approve any one or more of the items or sections contained in any bill appropriating money, but shall approve of the residue thereof, it shall become a law as to the residue in like manner as if he had signed it. The Governor shall then return the bill with his objections to the items or sections of the same not approved by him to the house in which the bill originated....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drummond v. Beasley
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.