Marcum v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCall v. Batson · Ludwick v. This Minute of Carolina, Inc. · Steinke v. SC DEPT. OF LABOR, LICENSING · Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation · 119 Wis. 2d 627 - Sorensen v. Jarvis
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.
“[t]he common law changes when necessary to serve the needs of the people. We have not hesitated to act in the past when it has become apparent that the public policy of the State is offended by outdated rules of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beaty
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.