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← 259 S.C. 118 - State v. Ham

State v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
November 2007
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2007

13 state decisions

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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 Smith v. United States · Beavers v. Haubert · State v. Hollars · State v. Solomon · State v. Swilling

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Every indictment shall be deemed and judged sufficient and good in law which, in addition to allegations as to time and place, as required by law, charges the crime substantially in the language of the common law or of the statute prohibiting the crime ...”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Wade · State v. Tumbleston
  2. “An indictment is sufficient if the offense is stated with [enough] certainty and particularity to enable the court to know what judgment to pronounce, and the defendant to know what he is called upon to answer and whether he may plead an acquittal or conviction thereon. The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could be made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the necessary elements of the offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Tumbleston

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.