State v. Beam’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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.

1. “[W]hen a party introduces evidence about a particular matter, the other party is entitled to explain it or rebut it, even if the latter evidence would have been incompetent or irrelevant had it been offered initially.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Young · State v. Heyward

2. “S.C.Code Ann. § 17-19-20 (1985). The indictment must state the offense with sufficient certainty and particularity to enable the court to know what judgment to pronounce, and the defendant to know what he is called upon to answer. Browning v. State, 320 S.C. 366 , 465 S.E.2d 358 (1995); Garrett v. State, 320 S.C. 353 , 465 S.E.2d 349 (1995); State v. Ervin, 333 S.C. 351 , 510 S.E.2d 220 (Ct.App.1998).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reddick

3. “The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could be made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the necessary elements of the offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Reddick