Fowler v. Mantooth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Horton v. Union Light, Heat & Power Co. (1985), Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Golightly (1998)
19 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 Davis v. Graviss · Ashland Dry Goods Co. v. Wages · Shields' Admrs. v. Rowland · Hensley v. Paul Miller Ford, Inc. · Murray v. Commonwealth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be implied from outrageous conduct, and need not be expressed so long as the conduct is sufficient to evidence conscious wrongdoing.”
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.