Bowles v. Goebel’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 671 · 1945
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1989 · most notably 6 Fair empl.prac.cas. 813, 6 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 8876 John Henry Head v. Timken Roller Bearing Company (1973), Moody v. Albemarle Paper Co. (1973)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Bowles v. American Stores, Inc. · Barson v. . Mulligan · Broschart v. Tuttle · Bowles v. Krodel
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the responsible exercise of official conscience on all the facts of a particular situation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the process of an appellate court in examining exercised discretion for abuse is not one of creating prescriptions and definitions for the curbing of judgment generally, but simply one of viewing the action taken in an immediate case in the relativeness of its entire situation to see whether it compels the conviction that there has not been a responsible exercise in a legal sense of official conscience on all the considerations involved in the situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Janousek v. French
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.