State v. Means’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Gentry · TNS Mills, Inc. v. South Carolina Department of Revenue · Dove v. Gold Kist, Inc. · State v. Gunn · Pierce v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be deemed and judged sufficient and good in law which, in addition to allegations as to time and place, as required by law, charges the crime substantially in the language of the common law or of the statute prohibiting the crime or so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may be easily understood and, if the offense be a statutory offense, that the offense be alleged to be contrary to the statute in such case made and provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tumbleston“subject matter jurisdiction is the power of a court to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the proceedings in question belong”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edith 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.