Dewolf v. Bowley’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1975
16 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 Trustees of Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund v. Roome · Mead v. Inhabitants of Acton · Matter of Mahon v. . Bd. of Education · Phœnix Assurance Co. v. Fire Department · Porter v. Loehr
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pension statutes have frequently been before this and other courts. It has been held that such acts are not invalid on the ground that the effect thereof is to appropriate public money to private use or to allow extra compensation to public officers for services already performed. [Citing a large number of cases] * * * This act does not violate the sections of the State Constitution referred to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bedford v. White
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.