Swicegood v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Law v. South Carolina Department of Corrections · Rush v. Blanchard · Jones v. Garner · Huggins v. Winn-Dixie Greenville, Inc. · Hainer v. American Medical International, Inc.
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.
“The governmental entity is not liable for a loss resulting from . . . employee conduct outside the scope of his official duties or which constitutes actual fraud, actual malice, intent to harm, or a crime involving moral turpitude[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The tort of abuse of process consists of two elements: an ulterior purpose, and a willful act in the use of the process that is not proper in the regular conduct of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contains neither an element of intent to harm, nor actual malice.”
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.