Wade v. Berkeley County’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
48 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mid-State Auto Auction of Lexington, Inc. v. Altman · Staubes v. City of Folly Beach · Paschal v. State Election Commission · Kennedy v. South Carolina Retirement System · Lester v. South Carolina Workers' Compensation 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a statute is ambiguous, the Court must construe the terms of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f a statute's language is plain and unambiguous, and conveys a clear and definite meaning, there is no occasion for employing rules of statutory interpretation and the court has no right to look for or impose another meaning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“covenant not to execute is a promise not to enforce a right of action or execute a judgment when one had such a right at the time of entering into the agreement.”
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.