Gowin v. Heider’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2023
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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`was defendant actively instrumental in putting the law in force? * * *. To impose liability there must be some affirmative action by way of advice, encouragement, etc.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is a conversion to obtain chattel property from another by duress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BLIGE v. TERRY“an unlawful interference with the true owner's dominion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BLIGE v. TERRY
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.