Hampton v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc. · Joytime Distributors & Amusement Co. v. State · Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority · South Carolina State Highway Department v. Harbin · Gilstrap Ex Rel. Gilstrap v. South Carolina Budget & Control Board
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.
“In the government of this State, the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other, and no person or persons exercising the functions of one of said departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he General Assembly has plenary power over all legislative matters unless limited by some constitutional provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“extraordinary equitable remedy courts may use in their discretion in order to prevent irreparable harm to a party”
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.