Bowsher v. Merck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
755 federal appellate · 64 district · 333 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,498 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), Waller v. Georgia (1984)
755 federal appellate · 64 district · 333 state decisions — followed in 35 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 Merck & Co. v. Staats
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Heldt · Illinois v. Gates · Chapman v. State of California
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.