Bowles v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 1010 · 1945
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Lightbody v. Russell · Speten v. Bowles · Whipple v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation · Spence v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who seeks treble damages for overcharge under the emergency price control act must allege and prove, that the goods purchased were for use or consumption other than in the course of trade or business (50 USCA, App. §925 [el. “Where cause of action is based solely upon a fact that is stated as a statutory exception, a declaration which fails to negative the exception would not state a case. “A buyer who buys a commodity above ceiling price as established under the emergency price control act ‘for use or consumption other than in the course of trade or business’ must negative the exception in his declaration in order to recover the overcharge as a buyer who buys ‘in the course of trade or business’ is in pari delicto (50 USCA, App. ¡§925 [e]).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Walton
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.