Dowell, Inc. v. Jowers’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 576 · 1950
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 1979 · most notably June T., Inc. v. King (1961), Francis v. Heater v. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1974)
33 federal appellate · 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 Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · McDermott v. Severe · Railroad Company v. Fraloff · Dowell, Inc. v. Jowers · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Carnahan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Looking at the entire paragraph we think it could not have been understood by the jury as conveying such an intimation, and that the words now criticized could only have been understood as marking a limit beyond which the jury could not go.”
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.