Dill v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 35th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Spring Branch I.S.D. v. Stamos · Whitworth v. Bynum · Jackson v. Axelrad
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature could rationally decide that Section 74.153 would help protect physicians from rising malpractice premiums and would make it easier for hospitals to recruit on-call physicians. The legislature could also rationally determine that the advantage of increased availability of emergency care statewide would offset its detrimental impact in individual cases.”
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.