State v. East’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2010
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Anthony · State v. Tucker · State v. Hall · State v. Creech · State v. Owens
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“South Carolina's kidnapping statute requires proof of an unlawful act taking one of several alternative forms, including seizure, confinement, inveiglement, decoy, kidnapping, abduction, or carrying away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neuman
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.