Fowler v. MacKentepe’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Buettner Bros. v. Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church (1944), Richards v. William Beach Hardware Co. (1942)
29 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 Grimsley v. First Ave. Coal & Lumber Co. · Gilbert v. Talladega Hardware Co. · Sturdavant v. First Ave. Coal & Lumber Co. · Williams v. Porter · Richardson Lumber Co. v. Howell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is further declared that, when a statutory lien is provided in derogation of the common law, it is looked upon with jealousy, is strictly construed, and there must be compliance in all matters of substance. This rule is necessary to protect the debtor and his property against unlawful expense, embarrassment, or impositions. . . ." (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and one acre in addition to the land upon which the building or improvement is situated,”
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.