James v. Henry Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
190 U.S. 127 · 1903
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
37 federal appellate · 22 district · 11 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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · United States v. Cruikshank · Logan v. United States · Civil Rights Cases · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 5507. Every person who prevents, hinders, controls, or intimidates another from exercising, or in exercising the right of suffrage, to whom that right is guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, by means of bribery or threats of depriving such person of employment or occupation, or of ejecting such person from a rented house, lands, or other property, or by threats of refusing to renew leases or contracts for labor, or by threats of violence to himself or family, shall be punished as provided in the preceding section.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“These authorities show that a statute which purports to punish purely individual action cannot be sustained as an appropriate exercise of the power conferred by the Fifteenth Amendment upon Congress to prevent action by the State through some one or more of its official representatives....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relates solely to action 'by the United States or by any state,' and does not contemplate wrongful individual acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Harvey · Nipper
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.