Fowler v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 338 · 1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Sims v. Gardner · Bill J. Gambocz v. Anthony M. Yelencsics · Thomas v. Consolidation Coal Co. · Weil v. Commissioner · St. Lo Const. Co. v. Koenigsberger
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relationship of [the two new defendants] to the parties sued in the [previous] action is so close that their addition cannot change the fact that this present action is repetitious and barred by res judicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elbert v. Carter
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.