Beaufort County v. Trask’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · First Savings Bank v. McLean · Biales v. Young · Bryant v. City of Charleston · Evins v. Richland County Historic Preservation 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a taxpayer may not maintain a suit to enjoin the action of State officers when he has no special interest and his only standing is the exceedingly small interest of a general taxpayer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For a plaintiff to have taxpayer standing, the party must demonstrate some overriding public purpose or concern to confer standing to sue on behalf of her fellow taxpayers”
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.