Fowler v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1971
21 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 Meier v. Buchter · Ray v. Walker · Byrne v. Fulkerson · Hartman v. Hartman · Gott v. Dennis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in determining the sufficiency of respondents' evidence, we must put the appellants' evidence out of consideration, save as it may aid respondents' case, and must accept respondents' evidence as entirely true and give respondents the benefit of every inference legitimately [517] to be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taveggia v. Petrini“The value of the estate fixes our appellate jurisdiction.”
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.