Fowler v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1955
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The clerk does not certify that the record contains all the evidence adduced in the case, and the judgment purports to have been rendered on due proof being made of plaintiff’s demand. Evidence may have been, and we are bound to believe, was offered to satisfy the court below; but the plaintiff was under no obligation to have it taken down in writing, for the use of his adversary, in case he should wish to appeal.’ Eowler v. Smith & Husband, 1 Rob. 448 .” Citing numerous other authorities.”
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.