Noisette v. Ismail’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Shealy v. Aiken County (2000), Summer v. Carpenter (1997)
140 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 Noisette v. Ismail · Borg Warner Acceptance Corp. v. Darby · Pawley's Island Civic Ass'n v. Johnson · Hurst, Purnell & Co. v. Samuels
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circuit court did not explicitly rule on”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“directory and ... noncompliance would not form the basis for invalidating a judgment, [citation omitted] Rather, where a trial court substantially complies with Rule 52(a) and adequately states the basis for the result it reaches, the appellate court should not vacate the trial court’s judgment for lack of an explicit or specific factual finding.”
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.