Clark v. Cantrell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 229 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably State v. Pittman (2007), Sloan v. South Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (2006)
2 district · 222 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 I'On, L.L.C. v. Town of Mt. Pleasant · State v. Kelsey · Gamble v. Stevenson · Laird v. Nationwide Insurance · Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Florence Printing Co.
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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion occurs when the trial court's ruling is based on an error of law or, when grounded in factual conclusions, is without evidentiary support.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“inconsistent with testimony or evidence presented by the opposing party”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Douglas · Harris v. State“only a re-creation of the proponent's version of the event.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Douglas · Harris v. State
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.