Fowler v. Peirce’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1993 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles (1950)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... and our constitution has wisely so distributed the powers of government, as to make one a check upon the other, thereby preventing one branch from strengthening itself both at the expense of the co-ordinate branches, and of the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.