Buffington v. T.O.E. Enterprises’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · South Carolina Department of Natural Resources v. Town of McClellanville · Tiger, Inc. Ex Rel. Green Apple Partnership v. Fisher Agro, Inc. · Janasik v. Fairway Oaks Villas Horizontal Property Regime · Hardy v. Aiken
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While this standard permits a broad scope of review, an appellate court will not disregard the findings of the [circuit] court, which saw and heard the witnesses and was in a better position to evaluate their credibility.”
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.