George Bowling v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Bell v. Fitzpatrick (1916), Miller v. Madigan (1923)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Heckman v. United States · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · The Kansas Indians · United States v. Freeman · Mullen v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The land so allotted shall not be subject to alienation for twenty-five years from the date of the issuance of patent therefor, and said lands so allotted and patented shall be exempt- from levy, sale, taxation, or forfeiture for a like period of years.” ( 25 Stat. 1014 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.