State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2018
3 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 Green v. Zimmerman · Ex Parte: Tolbert: In Re: Tolbert's Estate
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is mandatory. We hold therefore that the Habitual Offender Act requires the judge to impose its penalty when ... he finds the individual before him is a[ ] habitual offender. State v. Foster , 277 S.C. 211 , 212, 284 S.E.2d 780 , 780 (1981) (third alteration by court) (citations omitted). Section 56-1-1020 defines a habitual offender as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall direct that the person not operate a motor vehicle on the highways of this [s]tate and [that he] surrender to the court his driver's license or permit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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