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← 291 S.C. 287 - Weeks v. McMillan

Weeks v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
June 2013
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Bassett v. Bassett (1990), Fuller-Ahrens Partnership v. S.C. Deparment of Highways & Public Transportation (1993)

4 federal appellate · 25 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 Duke Power Co. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission · McPherson v. J. E. Sirrine & Co. · Dibble v. Sumter Ice and Fuel Co. · Petition of Crum · Dwyer v. Tom Jenkins Realty, Inc.

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

  1. “Where a decision is based on alternative grounds, either of which independent of the other is sufficient to support it, the decision will not be reversed even if one of the grounds is erroneous.”). 9 . Defendants have also argued that the trial court should have applied a neutral principles analysis to this controversy. To the extent this argument applies to the trial court’s determination that River of Life's property had reverted to the District Council upon its attempted secession from the Assemblies of God, we note that”
    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.