Weaver v. Recreation District’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2010
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Lillard v. Melton · Morton, Bliss & Co. v. Comptroller General · Honea v. Honea · Thompson v. South Carolina Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse · Evans v. Beattie, Comptroller General
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are cognizant ... of the disruptive effect today’s holding could have on the financial operation of numerous special purpose districts, local commissions and boards throughout this state. Accordingly, in order to give the General Assembly an opportunity to address this problem, we hold this decision shall be applied prospectively beginning December 31, 1999.”
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.