Bowen v. Lansing’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 79 Cal. App. 443 - Retsloff v. Smith (1926), 118 Ind. App. 187 - Vonville v. Dexter (1948)
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Lewis v. . Smith · Champion v. Brown · Hill v. Proctor · Cox v. Arnsmann · Gustin v. Union School-District
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the foregoing authorities indicate that the vendor's title is only a trust coupled with an interest by way of security for a debt, which is personalty, so the [cases cited by counsel are] in harmony in holding that the vendee is the cestui que trust as to the legal title, and that his interest [i.e., the vendees interest] is real property, and descends to his heirs.... It is clear that, upon the death of the vendor, the chose in action, with the security represented by the contract, became a part of the personal assets of the estate.... [ Bowen at 119-120, 88 N.W. 384 (emphasis added).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is only a trust coupled with an interest by way of security for a debt....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but an ordinary money debt, secured by the contract.”
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.