Bowers v. MacHir’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1972
15 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 Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co. · City of Corsicana v. Zorn · McCammon & Lang Lumber Co. v. Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway Co. · Oswald v. Grenet · Gilder v. City of Brenham
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.
“`(3) Defendant Erna List had sold lot 34 to her mother, Alice M. List, prior to the filing of this suit, but after same had been closed, and had delivered possession thereof to her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.'”
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.