Bowman v. Armour & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1990
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 Berger v. United States Steel Corp. · 8 Ill. 2d 494 - McCartney v. McCartney · 10 Ill. 2d 507 - Farrand Coal Co. v. Halpin · Mercantile Trust Co. v. Kastor · Kreicker v. Naylor Pipe Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The charter or articles of incorporation of an Illinois corporation is a contract of a three-fold nature. It is operative as between the corporation and the State and it creates rights and duties as between the corporation and its shareholders, as well as between the shareholders themselves" (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The word 'price' has a narrower meaning and is more restricted in scope than the word 'consideration/ and 'price' has been defined as the amount of money given or received in exchange for anything. (Citations) "A consideration of these -sections can lead us only to the conclusion that when the legislature makes reference to the payment of money it uses the word 'price.' When it is concerned with a broader definition it found adequate words to express its intention." Bowman v. Armour & Co., 17 Ill.2d 43 , 160 N.E.2d 753, 758 .”
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.