Fowler v. Continental Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1987
18 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 Pry v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Coad v. Coad · Boulware v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Kaw Life Ass'n v. Lemke · Gant v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The greater weight of authority seems to follow the rule ‘that if a person makes a general appearance subsequent to the entry of a void judgment, he must make all the objections he intends to raise, and that those objections not made are waived, and the judgment is validated as to all defects not distinctly raised by the general appearance.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grieve v. Huber““This- appeal has been diligently prosecuted under an apparently honest claim of right. The argument that the question had been previously decided was challenged and opinions might honestly differ upon the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Garde
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.