Fowler v. True’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1934
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Godden v. Kimmell · Inhabitants of Stockbridge v. Inhabitants of West Stockbridge · Bacon v. Pomeroy · Sugar River Bank v. Fairbank · Atwood v. Rhode-Island Agricultural Bank
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.
““This object is one of great importance, by securing as far as practicable an early and final settlement of estates, so that the residuum may be distributed among those entitled, free from incumbrances and charges which would lead to protracted litigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Coffin
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.