Rowe v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1977
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Patch · City of Belleville v. Hallowell · Challiss v. Atchison Union Depot & Railroad · Haseltine v. Nuss · Showalter v. Southern Kansas Railway Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case, as presented falls within the long established rule promulgated in a number of decided cases, that under a statute providing that when a street of a city is vacated it shall revert to the owners of the lots adjoining on each side in proportion to the frontage, and becomes an appurtenance and a part of such adjoining lot which passes under a conveyance by the mere description of the lot by its name. (A. T. & S. F. Rld. Co. v. Patch, 28 Kan. 470 ; City of Belleville v. Hallowell, 41 Kan. 192 , 21 Pac. 105 ; Challiss v. Depot and Rld. Co., 45 Kan. 398 , 25 Pac. 894 ; Showalter v. Railway Co., 49 Kan. 421 , 32 Pac. 42 ; Haseltine v. Nuss, 97 Kan. 228 , 155 Pac. 55 .)” (l. c. 642.)”
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.