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← 384 S.C. 66 - State v. Commander

State v. Commander’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2012
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Baccus · State v. Mitchell · Fields v. Regional Medical Center Orangeburg · State v. Knoten · State v. Cole

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “And he asked me a question, what did I think, he wanted my opinion. If he had this lawyer ... what did I think if he told his lawyer to tell the State that his girlfriend ... hit him in the head with a stick and he fell unconscious and fell on her and when he was — when he regained consciousness that she had died from suffocation because he was on her, he fell on top of her. And I told him, no one is going to believe this.”
    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.