Moran v. Bowley’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Colegrove v. Green (1946), Smiley v. Holm (1932)
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · People ex rel. Grinnell v. Hoffman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“among the several States . . . according to their respective Numbers, . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colegrove v. Green
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.