Fox v. Munnerlyn’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2010
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Davenport v. WOODSIDE COTTON MILLS CO. INC. · Hinson v. A. T. Sistare Construction Co. · Matheson v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Glass v. Glass · Baxley v. Barnwell Lumber Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a defendant's acts have been willful, wanton or in reckless disregard of the rights of another,”
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.