Lowden v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1992
6 federal appellate · 8 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 City of Tulsa v. Harman · Lawrence v. Southern Railway, Carolina Div. · Kurn v. Jones · Davis v. Lewis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. To charge railroad with negligence in leaving train at night across, highway without lights or other signals to disclose its presence, motorist injured must show that trainmen, exercising reasonable care, should know that, because of darkness, cars were such obstruction that people traveling in automobiles properly equipped with lights and carefully operated at reasonable rate of speed would be likely to come into collision with them. “2. Trainmen in the employ of a railroad company are not required to anticipate that a motorist driving along a highway and knowingly approaching a railroad crossing will drive his automobile in such manner as will not permit him to avoid collision with a freight car standing upon the crossing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.