Dowie v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1978
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
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 Ross v. Duval · Hurry v. Hurry · Lepenser v. Griffin · Hurry v. Hurry · Hava v. Chavigny
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act is remedial in its nature, and it took effect upon people as it found them. It is simply retroactive to this extent: That it affected the rights of persons already in existence from the passage of the act and was not confined merely to rights and persons coming under its terms in the future. It is a statute giving the personal status of married persons, and giving the remedy to those who have lived separate and apart for more than seven years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schuster v. Schuster“forever denied the privilege of contracting another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Floyd
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.