Fowler v. Pilson’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 918 · 1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2003
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on Doehla v. Phillips · Saunders v. Simms · 133 Cal. App. 525 - Faias v. Superior Court · Tourtelot v. Booker · 55 Cal. App. 416 - Murphy v. Davids
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘§ 335. The periods prescribed for the commencement of actions other than for the recovery of real property, are as follows * * “ ‘336. Within five years: 1. An action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States or of any state within the United States. * * * ’ “ ‘685. In all cases the judgment may be enforced or carried into execution after the lapse of five years from the date of its entry, by leave of the court, upon motion, and after due notice to the judgment debtor accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits setting forth the reasons for failure to proceed in compliance with the provisions of section 681 of this code. The failure to set forth such reasons as shall, in the discretion of the court, be sufficient, shall be grounds for th» J;;ial of the motion.’ ””
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.