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← 394 S.C. 473 - State v. Jennings

State v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

78
cited by 78 later decisions
2
states following
June 2021
most recently cited

78 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Clark v. Cantrell · State v. Gaster · State v. Blackburn · State v. Dawkins · State v. Nichols

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

  1. “An abuse of discretion occurs when the trial court's ruling is based on an error of law or, when grounded in factual conclusions, is without evidentiary support.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “no other way to interpret the language used in the reports other than to mean the forensic interviewer believed the children were being truthful”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'Hearsay' is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
    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.