Stone v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when two statutes “are in conflict, the more recent and specific statute should prevail so as to repeal the earlier, general statute”
• statutes are construed so as to avoid absurd results
• statutes are construed so as to avoid absurd results
• more recent and specific statute prevails

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whitner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-10-27· cited 99×
• Denman v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-03-24· cited 19×
• Bolin v. South Carolina Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-11-12· cited 17×
• State v. Tisdale
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-02-05· cited 4×
• Slocumb v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-11-08· cited 4×
• Palmettonet, Inc. v. South Carolina Tax Commission
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-03-27· cited 2×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gilstrap Ex Rel. Gilstrap v. South Carolina Budget & Control Board
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-08-10· cited 43×
• Higgins v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-03-16· cited 36×
• Hair v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-06-10· cited 13×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-05-10· cited 8×
• State v. Bodiford
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-07-18· cited 5×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-02-26· cited 3×