Wilson v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.2d 976 · 1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1968
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Covington & Cincinnati Bridge Co. v. Hager · Knapp v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. · Jacob Hoffman Brewing Co. v. McElligott · Jacob Hoffmann Brewing Co. v. McElligott · New Jersey Wholesale Drug Co. v. Brown
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.
“there probably is a distinction * * * between an application for a mandamus requiring an official in general to take certain action and an injunction restraining his refusal upon some particular ground which he sets up as a consideration legally controlling * * *.”
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.