State v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1968
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 Purner v. Piercy · Governor ex rel. Simmons v. Hancock · Penhallow v. Dwight · State ex rel. Vanderworker v. Brown · Handy v. Clippert
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Acts done virtute officii are where they are within the authority of the officer, but in doing them he exercises that authority improperly, or abuses the confidence which the law reposes in him; whilst acts done colore officii are where they are of such a nature that his office gives him no authority to do them. . . . ” State v. Fowler, 88 Md. 607 , 42 Atl. 201, 203 , 71 Am. St. Rep. 452 , 42 L. R. A. 849.”
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.