Fowles v. . Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Hemmens v. . Nelson (1893), Shapiro v. Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (1959)
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lewis and Herrick v. . Chapman · Hastings v. Lusk · Inman v. Foster · Kennedy v. Gifford · Olmsted v. Brown
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any charge of dishonesty against an individual in connection with his business, whereby his character in such business may be injuriously affected, is actionable. If spoken of him individually, and not in connection with his office or business, these words would not be actionable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mains v. Whiting
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.