440 So. 2d 1195 - Fowler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2013
13 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 49 Ill. 2d 338 - The People v. McCabe · Brantley v. State · Finch v. State · 399 So. 2d 263 - Tyson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · State Docks Commission v. State Ex Rel. 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The due process clause is satisfied if the law bears a reasonable relation to a proper legislative purpose and is neither arbitrary nor discriminatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the legislature saw the need to pass further legislation to control the sale, use, and distribution of [certain controlled substances]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to curb an apparent widespread distribution and sale of [such drugs] in the State”
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.