Fowler v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 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 State Board of Charities & Corrections v. Combs · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Meredith v. Hall · Willard v. Ferguson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he privilege granted by [KRS 197.045] is not a vested right.... When Fowler claims the benefit provided by the statute he necessarily is bound by the condition which reserves to the Department the right to determine whether he was entitled to receive such benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Chandler“[a]ny person convicted and sentenced to a state penal institution may receive a credit on his sentence of not exceeding ten (10) days for each month served, except as provided in this section, to be determined by the department from the conduct of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Chandler“Since the benefit that a prisoner may receive under [ KRS 197.045 ] is a matter of legislative grace, the General Assembly could impose such conditions as it deems best for society.”
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.