Fowler v. Valencourt’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Carolina Power & Light Co. v. City of Asheville (2004), 116 N.C. App. 448 - Bryant v. Adams (1994)
2 federal appellate · 94 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Owens v. Okure · Dickens v. Puryear · State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Edmisten · Electric Supply Co. of Durham, Inc. v. Swain Electrical Co. · Trustees of Rowan Technical College v. J. Hyatt Hammond Associates Inc.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing a statute, the Court must first ascertain the legislative intent to assure that the purpose and intent of the legislation are carried out. ... To make this determination, we look first to the language of the statute itself. ... If the language used is clear and unambiguous, the Court does not engage in judicial construction but must apply the statute to give effect to the plain and definite meaning of the language.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen two statutes apparently overlap, it is well established that the statute special and particular shall control over the statute general in nature, even if the general statute is more recent, unless it clearly appears that the legislature intended the general statute to control,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a liability created by statute, either state or federal.”
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.