Fowler v. DeFontes’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Harper v. Higgs (1961), State, Use of Taylor v. Barlly (1958)
4 district · 34 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 Belle Isle Cab Co. v. Pruitt · Shedlock v. Marshall · West v. Belle Isle Cab Co. · Legum v. State Ex Rel. Moran · Blinder v. Monaghan
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One is guilty of concurrent negligence who negligently occupies a position of known danger, and continues to occupy it until injury results, when he could by reasonable care and diligence have escaped therefrom in time to have avoided the injury, and where the other person, the defendant, although he knew of plaintiff’s position, may reasonably have inferred that he would move to a place of safety in time to escape injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Hague“is to be enjoyed with due regard to the circumstances then and there existing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Higgs
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.