Brown v. Leverette’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Baird v. Charleston County (1999), Toussaint v. Ham Ex Rel. Bailey Memorial Hospital (1987)
55 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 Blandon v. Coleman · Glass v. Glass · New Hanover County Department of Social Services ex rel. Gore v. Graham · Brown v. County of Lexington · Hill v. Watford
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In considering a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), SCRCP, the circuit court must base its ruling solely upon the allegations set forth on the face of the complaint.”
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.