Fowler v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2019
20 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 Charleston County School District v. State Budget & Control Board · Talley v. South Carolina Higher Education Tuition Grants Committee · Elledge v. Wharton · Cameron & Barkley Co. v. South Carolina Procurement Review Panel · Multimedia, Inc. v. Greenville Airport 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the exemptions in section 30-4-40 are to be narrowly construed so as to fulfill the purpose of FOIA ... 'to guarantee the public reasonable access to certain activities of the government.' To further advance this purpose, the government has the burden of proving that an exemption applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pope v. Wilson
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.