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← 289 S.C. 327 - Sheek v. Lee

Sheek v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018

2 federal appellate · 10 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 Benya v. Gamble · Brown v. Hill · Bannon v. Knauss · Hobbs v. Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Carolina Life Ins. Co. v. Bank of Greenwood

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

  1. “Damages for losses that are the natural and proximate, but not the necessary, result of the injury may be recovered only when such special damages are sufficiently stated and claimed.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Georgetown Steel Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation, Law Engineering Testing Company Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Inc., Georgetown Steel Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation, Law Engineering Testing Company Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Inc. · Norwest Props., LLC v. Strebler
  2. “General damages are those which must necessarily result from the wrongful act upon which liability is based,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Georgetown Steel Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation, Law Engineering Testing Company Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Inc., Georgetown Steel Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation, Law Engineering Testing Company Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Inc.
  3. “Special damages must be alleged in the complaint to avoid surprise to the other party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Allegro, Inc. v. Scully

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.