Fowler v. Birmingham News Co.’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1055 · 1979
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Cox v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (1986), Holmes v. Continental Can Co. (1983)
41 federal appellate · 2 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 International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Hansberry v. Lee · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a rule 23(b)(2) class action, mechanics of the notice process are left to the discretion of the district court subject only to the broad `reasonableness' standards imposed by due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a full and final adjudication of all claims that were or might have been brought”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.