Bowen v. John’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1950
14 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 Giles v. Anslow · Jones v. Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. · Wicker v. Ray
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘owner’ when applied to real estate, means an estate in fee simple. Illinois Mutual Ins. Co. v. Marseilles Manf. Co., 1 Gilm 236.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Carpenter
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.