Comstock v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably 30 Mass. App. Ct. 697 - Johnson v. Witkowski (1991), Jose v. Lyman (1944)
5 federal appellate · 34 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 Shaw v. Spencer · Lumiansky v. Tessier · Glover v. Waltham Laundry Co. · Anderson v. Bean · Harvey-Watts Co. v. Worcester Umbrella Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n administrator `is deemed unsuitable when he has any conflicting personal interest which prevents him from doing his official duty'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.