39 N.C. App. 715 - Fowler v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 127 N.C. App. 212 - Tate Terrace Realty Investors, Inc. v. Currituck County (1997), 84 N.C. App. 167 - Matter of Jackson (1987)
66 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 Sutton v. Duke · Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Childress v. Abeles · Childress v. Abeles · Alltop v. JC PENNEY COMPANY, 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the right to attend school and claim the benefits of the public school system is subject to lawful rules prescribed for the government thereof.”
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.