Case v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 92 · 1946
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 27 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably National League of Cities v. Usery (1976), Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
110 federal appellate · 27 district · 20 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBowles v. Case (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hines v. Davidowitz · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Yakus v. United States · United States v. Darby · Bowles v. Willingham
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not operate as a limitation upon the powers, express or implied, delegated to the national government.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * But here the complaint 'did not challenge the constitutionality of the State statute but alleged merely that its enforcement would violate the Emergency Price Control Act. * *” 327 U.S. 92, 97, 66 S.Ct. 438, 441.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only question is whether the state's power to make the sales must be in subordination to the power of Congress to fix maximum prices in order to carry on war.”
2 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.