Hitachi Data Systems Corp. v. Leatherman’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Sweat (2010), Catawba Indian Tribe v. State (2007)
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 Burns v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · Bryant v. City of Charleston · Wright Ex Rel. Green v. Colleton County School District · Tall Tower, Inc. v. South Carolina Procurement Review Panel · Multi-Cinema, Ltd. v. South Carolina Tax Commission
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.
“[t]he language [of a statute] must also be read in a sense which harmonizes with its subject matter and accords with its general purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be given their plain and ordinary meaning without resort to subtle or forced construction to limit or expand [their] operation.”
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.