State v. Bowsher’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 31 U.S.C. § 1322 · 31 U.S.C. § 3325
Relies on Hanna v. Plumer · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Federal Communications Commission · Free v. Bland
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“further[ ] the federal government's presumed purpose to return the unclaimed property to its true owners,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arizona v. Bowsher
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.