Fowler v. Pedlar’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2000
2 federal appellate · 4 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 McIver v. Gloria · Bonney v. San Antonio Transit Company · King v. Skelly · Consolidated Casualty Insurance Company v. Smith · HJ Heinz Company v. Ashley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a personal injury suit the amount which the plaintiff might have earned in the future is always uncertain and must be left largely to the sound judgment and discretion of the jury No general rule can be laid down, except that each case must be judged upon its peculiar facts, and the damages proved with that degree of certainty of which the case is susceptible .... Where plaintiff is a child, who has never earned any money, the jury must determine the value of its lost earning capacity altogether from their common knowledge and sense of justice . . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is clear that at the time of his injury he had not reached his potential earning capacity .... Since appellant was a student at the time of his injury . - . . the amount of lost earning capacity must be determined by the jury largely from their common knowledge and sense of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In determining diminished earning capacity, you would not consider alone the ability of the workman to do the immediate type of work he is on a”
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.