Townsend v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2000
9 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 United States Rubber Co. v. White Tire Co. · Rimer v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Bank of Chillicothe v. McSwain · Beheler v. National Grange Mutual Insurance · National Bank of South Carolina v. People's Grocery Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have held that recoverable damages do not include the expense of employing counsel except when so provided for by contract or statute. First Nat. Bank of Chillicothe v. McSwain, 93 S. C. 30, 75 S. E. 1106 ; United States Rubber Co. v. White Tire Co., 231 S. C. 84, 97 S. E. (2d) 403 and Rimer v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 248 S. C. 18, 148 S. E. (2d) 742 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(3) Tenant at will. — Every person other than the owner of real estate . . . using or occupying real estate without an agreement, either oral or in writing, shall be deemed a “tenant at will”;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.