Sloan v. Hardee’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably CFRE, LLC v. Greenville County Assessor (2011), State v. Whitner (2012)
68 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hodges v. Rainey · Kiriakides v. United Artists Communications, Inc. · Baird v. Charleston County · State v. Blackmon · Carolina Power & Light Co. v. City of Bennettsville
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal rule of statutory interpretation is to ascertain and effectuate the intention of the legislature.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Words must be given their plain and ordinary meaning without resort to subtle or forced construction to limit or expand the statute's operation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'When a statute's terms are clear and unambiguous on their face, there is no room for statutory construction and a court must apply the statute according to its literal meaning.'”
2 later decisions 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.