Fowler v. Seiter’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Stiley v. Block (1996), State v. Moen (1996)
51 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 Burkett v. Schwendiman · 116 Wash. 2d 584 - French v. Gabriel · Forrester v. Cook · Pingree v. Continental Group of Utah, Inc. · 20 Utah 2d 30 - Gerard v. Young
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because section 78-36-8 prescribes that the summons in a forcible entry cause of action contain an in-dorsement by the court, failure to comply with that requirement by necessity gives rise to an imsufficiency of process defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the court shall indorse on the summons the number of days within which the defendant is required to appear and defend the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failure to comply with [the endorsement] requirement by necessity gives rise to an insufficiency of process defense.”
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.