Bowles v. Wilke’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 35 · 1949
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Breen v. Phelps (1982), Coastal Steel Corporation v. Tilghman Wheelabrator Ltd Wheelabrator-Frye Inc (1983)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2105
Relies on Messenger v. Anderson · Fleming v. Mohawk Wrecking & Lumber Co. · Ex Parte Allen · Defense Supplies Corporation v. Lawrence Warehouse · United States Bernardin v. Butterworth
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he only restraint upon a second judge in passing upon an interlocutory issue decided by another judge in the same case is one of comity only, which in no way infringes upon the power of the second judge to act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here shall be no reversal in ... a court of appeals for error in ruling upon matters in abatement which do not involve jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions 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.