Mathis v. Hair’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hodges v. Rainey · Staubes v. City of Folly Beach · Paschal v. State Election Commission · State Ex Rel. McLeod v. Montgomery · City of Darlington v. Kilgo
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 5-7-60 provides in part that any municipality may provide its services outside its corporate limits by contract, and the statute defines a designated 'service area' to mean the area in which a particular service is being provided.”
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.