Marley v. Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably In Re the Treatment & Care of Luckabaugh (2002), Elam v. Elam (1980)
31 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 Reed v. Reed · Duke Power Co. v. Bell, County Treasurer · Thompson v. South Carolina Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse · Hunt v. McNair · Thompson v. SC COMM. ON AL. & DRUG ABUSE
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he limitation of the operation of the South Carolina statute (adoping comparative negligence) to motor vehicle accidents renders the provision constitutionally defective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws requires that all persons be treated alike under like circumstances and conditions, both in the privileges conferred and in the liabilities imposed. Thompson v. S. C. Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse, 267 S.C. 463 , 229 S.E.2d 718 (1976); 16 Am.Jur.2d, Constitutional Law § 488. While the General Assembly has the right to make reasonable classifications of persons and property for public purpose, Hunt v. McNair, 255 S.C. 71 , 177 S.E.2d 362 (1970), the classification must not be purely arbitrary and must rest upon some reasonable basis. Duke Power Company v. Bell, 156 S.C. 299 , 152 S.E. 865 (1930); American Trust Co., Inc. v. S. C. State Board of Bank Control, 381 F.Supp. 313 (D.C.S.C.1974); Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 , 92 S.Ct. 251 , 30 L.Ed.2d 225 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.