Bowles v. Baer’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 787 · 1944
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Matter of the Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Harry a Groban and Nathan Groban (1957), Federal Trade Commission v. Cinderella Career & Finishing Schools, Inc. (1968)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Morgan v. United States · Woolley v. United States · In re Securities & Exchange Commission · Wisconsin ex rel. Satlesville Cheese Manufacturing Co. v. Zimmerman · 14 F. Supp. 417 - In Re Securities and Exchange Commission
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.
““On the other hand, in a hearing there are parties, and issues of law and of fact to be tried, and at the conclusion of the hearing, action is taken which may materially affect the rights of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nvestigations are informal proceedings held to obtain information to govern future action and are not proceedings in which action is taken against anyone”
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.