Fowler v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Chandler v. Colcord (1893), 68 Md. App. 615 - McClayton v. McClayton (1986)
1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judge was clearly in error in holding that the stipulation for insurance, when speaking of the ‘amount due/ meant not the whole sum secured, but only the amount that had become presently payable; in other words, the amount overdue. We cannot suppose such to have been the understanding of the parties. The word ‘due’ is often used in business tranactions as synonymous with ‘owing’ or ‘remaining unpaid/ and no reasonable doubt can exist that it was so used here. The need of insurance to protect the mortgagee would be at least as great before as after the payment fell due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moriarty v. Cochran
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.