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← 393 S.C. 584 - State v. Jacobs

State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hodges v. Rainey · State v. Blackmon · State v. Williams · State v. Mills · Grazia v. South Carolina State Plastering, LLC

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

  1. “In January 2010,____ [t]he circuit judge deferred sentencing ... and requested the parties submit memoranda in support of their positions regarding the suspension issue.”). The Solicitor in Jacobs filed a memorandum arguing,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The cardinal rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the legislature.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Penal statutes are strictly construed against the State and in favor of the defendant.”
    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.