Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co.’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 410 · 1945
Citation profile
1,724 federal appellate · 405 district · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,939 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Udall v. Tallman (1965), Auer v. Robbins (1997)
1,724 federal appellate · 405 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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
reviewedBowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Yakus v. United States · Lockerty v. Phillips · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Cleveland v. United States
Cited together with Udall v. Tallman · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Larionoff · Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala · Auer v. Robbins
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 3,939 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.”
240 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“countless explanations and interpretations given to inquirers affected by this type of maximum price regulation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plain words of the regulation and any relevant interpretations of the [agency].”
3 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.