Malone v. Bowdoin’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 105 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 809 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Dugan v. Rank (1963)
322 federal appellate · 105 district · 33 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBowdoin v. Malone (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491
Relies on Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Land US v. Dollar · United States v. Causby · United States v. Lee · Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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 809 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he action of a federal officer affecting property claimed by a plaintiff can be made the basis of a suit for specific relief against the officer as an individual only if the officer's action is 'not within the officer's statutory powers or, if within those powers, only if the powers, or their exercise in the particular case, are constitutionally void.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to reconcile completely all the decisions of the Court in this field prior to 1949 would be a Procrustean task,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuing vitality only `where there is a claim that the holding constitutes an unconstitutional taking of property without just compensation,'”
4 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.