Bowdidge v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 366 · 1958
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Dayco Corp. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1975), Bon Air Hotel, Inc. v. Time, Inc. (1970)
39 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Fountain v. Filson · Crow 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)e think the spirit of the rule requires the same notice and hearing where the court contemplates summary dismissal on its own motion.”
4 later decisions 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.