Fuller v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 district · 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 Tinker v. Colwell · Huntington v. City of New York · Williams v. Williams · McDonald v. Brown · 228 Mo. App. 519 - Dohring v. Kansas City.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be reduced to three principal or primary articles-the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right of private property-because as there is no other known method of compulsion ... but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that injury to the person is at times limited to something physical, particularly insurance policies, but the weight of authorities hold that injury to one’s reputation is an injury to the person .... [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Via v. O'Donnell
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.