Layman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · South Carolina State Ports Authority v. Jasper County · Sloan Ex Rel. Resident, Taxpayer & Registered Elector v. Wilkins Ex Rel. S.C. House of Representatives · Sloan v. Sanford · Thomas v. Cooper River Park
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not use the same contractually significant language as utilized in the old TERI statute. As a result, we hold that the old working retiree statute does not create a binding contract between the State and the old working retirees prohibiting the State from altering the statute exempting old working retirees from further contributions to the retirement system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ahrens v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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