State v. Head

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the judge applied an erroneous test of navigability by agreeing that the creek in question was navigable except for a “stopping point” such as a dam that prevented navigability
• conviction for fishing without permission overturned; owner of land under navigable water could not prevent public access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Henderson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-11-05· cited 30×
• Lowcountry Open Land Trust v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-09-10· cited 22×
• White's Mill Colony, Inc. v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-01-18· cited 18×
• State v. White
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-11-29· cited 9×
• Brownlee v. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-03-30· cited 5×
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey Alan Meyers
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2020-01-31

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Noisette v. Ismail
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-04-01· cited 164×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-01-11· cited 67×
• Bott v. Natural Resources Commission
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-08· cited 42×
• State v. Cutter
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-06-18· cited 33×
• Goose Creek Hunting Club, Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1975-06-25· cited 32×
• Natland Corp. v. Baker's Port, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-11-30· cited 29×
• State v. Hardee
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1972-11-14· cited 27×
• Broom Ex Rel. Broom v. Southeastern Highway Contracting Co.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1986-12-29· cited 26×
• Heyward v. Farmers' Mining Co.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1894-07-27· cited 24×
• State Ex Rel. Guste v. Two O'Clock Bayou Land
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1979-02-09· cited 16×
• Sierra Club v. Kiawah Resort Associates
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-03-27· cited 12×
• State Ex Rel. McLeod v. Sloan Construction Co.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-02-13· cited 11×
• Hughes v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-11-26· cited 10×
• State Ex Rel. Medlock v. South Carolina Coastal Council
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-07-28· cited 9×
• State ex rel. Columbia Bridge Co. v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1887-07-08· cited 8×
• Unisun Insurance v. First Southern Insurance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-08-07· cited 5×
• City of Columbia v. Felder
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-11-14· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-11-16· cited 3×
• Unisun Ins. Co. v. FIRST SOUTHERN INS.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-08-07· cited 2×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-02-29· cited 2×