Justice v. Pantry’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2015
19 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 Berkebile v. Outen · State v. Thrift · Russell v. City of Columbia · Butler v. Unisun Insurance · Brown v. Leverette
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.
“a policy which prevents a gambler from allowing his vice to overcome his ability to pay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In case any person who shall lose such money or other thing as aforesaid shall not, within the time aforesaid, really and bona fide and without covin or collusion sue and with effect prosecute for the money or other things so by him or them lost and paid and delivered as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any other person, by any such action or suit as aforesaid, to sue for and recover the same and treble the value thereof, with costs of suit, against such winner or winners as aforesaid, the one moiety thereof to the use of the person that will sue for the same and the other moiety to the use of the county in which the offense shall have been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Justice’s complaints contain sufficient allegations regarding these three elements and comply with Rule 8, SCRCP. First, Justice clearly alleged in his complaints that his mother and sister, while gambling, “lost in excess of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per sitting ” (emphasis added). Secondly, Justice specifically alleged that the money was lost “while gambling on the poker video machines.” Finally, Justice alleged the money was lost to the Defendants named in the complaints, who “owned and/or operated” the video poker machines.”
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.