Fowler v. Mumford’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Link v. Link (1971), Totem Marine Tug & Barge, Inc. v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. (1978)
5 district · 16 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 Klein v. Sunbeam Corp. · Ramp Buildings Corp. v. Northwest Building Co. · 97 F. Supp. 639 - Maschmeijer v. Ingram · Stabler v. Ramsay · 90 F. Supp. 66 - Paramount Textile Machinery Co. v. Burlington Mills Corp.
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.
““It is true that under the modern view, acts or threats cannot constitute duress unless they are wrongful; but an act may be wrongful though lawful. Acts that are wrongful in a moral sense, though not criminal or tortious or in violation of contractual duty, may also constitute duress under the doctrine sought to be invoked by the defendant.” 102 A. 2d at 538 .”
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.