Fowler v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1990
9 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 Schreiner v. City Nat. Bank of McAlester · Nation v. Savely · Carter v. Grimmett · McKinney v. Swift · State ex rel. Com'rs of Land Office v. Jones
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The demurrer admits the truth of the allegations of the petition. The petition must be liberally construed in favor of the pleader for the purpose of the demurrer. If the petition states any facts entitling the defendant to any relief, it was error to sustain the general demurrer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelough v. Neff
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.