Colyer v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Solomon · Solomon v. South Carolina · City of Charleston v. Jenkins · McAbee v. Southern Rwy. Co. · Law County Board v. Spartanburg
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where there is a conflict between a State statute and city ordinance, as where an ordinance permits that which a statute prohibits, the ordinance is void.”
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.