Rowley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 949 · 1951
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably Hubsch v. United States (1958), Barnes v. United States (1952)
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 Keto v. United States · Pines v. United States · Martyn v. United States · United States v. Abel Turner
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may with us be defined at common law to be ‘the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man’s right, * * *.’ ” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The obligation created by the issuance of the cheques as against the bank issuing them was complete when the checks were issued even though they required the signature of the one to whom issued and they constituted a security within the purview of the statute.” 191 F.2d 949 , 950.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * it is well settled that the crime of forgery may be committed by the signing of a fictitious or assumed name, provided, of course, that the instrument as so completed is made with intent to defraud.” (Rowley v. United States, supra, 191 F.2d at 951 .)”
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.