Bowen v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2008
1 federal appellate · 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 Womack v. Coleman · Anthis v. Sandlin · McGregor v. Ireland
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An option is a contract by which the owner of property agrees that another shall have a right to buy it at a fixed price within a certain time. The owner does not sell the property, but sells the privilege to buy at the option of the other person. “A mere option to purchase real property conveys no interest in such property to the optionee and does not authorize the optionee to grant or convey any interest in the property to a third person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walden v. Vining
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.