State v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1958 · most notably Indianapolis Northern Traction Co. v. Brennan (1909), Voss v. Waterloo Water Co. (1904)
1 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title.”
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.