Fowler v. Boise Cascade Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 49 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 226 Ill. 2d 208 - Gallagher v. Lenart (2007), Allen v. Adage, Inc. (1992)
15 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. Seckinger · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. · Griggs-Ryan v. Smith
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is reasonably prone to different interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ourts should not rewrite contracts, especially if the two contracting parties are two corporations acting at arms length.”
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.