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← 309 S.C. 560 - Underwood v. State

Underwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
January 2021
most recently cited

19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2021

19 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 Strickland v. Washington · Cherry v. State · State v. Hudnall · Martinez v. State

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

  1. “If you hurt a child very badly, that child is going—another adult is going to find out more likely. The child isn’t going to come back, and you will be discovered. Therefore, many people who want to be sexually involved with children are careful of the children with whom they become sexually involved.”
    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.