Fontaine v. Peitz’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Clark v. Cantrell (2000), Fields v. Regional Medical Center Orangeburg (2005)
66 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 Calloway v. Ford Motor Company · Capps v. Lynch · Renney v. Dobbs House, Inc. · Talbot v. Myrtle Beach Board of Adjustment · Niggel v. City of Columbia
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion occurs when the [circuit court]'s ruling is based upon an error of law or, when based upon factual conclusions, is without evidentiary support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oulla v. Velazques“When the trial judge is vested with discretion, but his ruling reveals no discretion was, in fact, exercised, an error of law has occurred.”
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.