Bowling v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 248 · 1848
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1970 · most notably Austin Nichols & Co. v. Steamship "Isla de Panay" (1925), United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. v. Levensaler (1923)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Smedes v. President of Bank of Utica · Miller v. Hackley · Ireland v. Kip · Ireland v. Kip
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘holder’ is properly applied to the person having possession of the paper and making the demand, whether in his own right or as an agent for another. * * * ‘Holder’ is a word of the same import as ‘bearer.’ * * * ‘Holder’ is a general word applied to any one in actual or constructive possession of the bill, and entitled at law to recover or receive its' contents from the parties to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A usage, to be binding, should be definite, uniform, and well known. It should be established by clear and satisfactory evidence, so that it may be justly presumed that the parties had reference to it in making their contract.” Bowling v. Harrison, 47 U. S. 248 , 259, 12 L. Ed. 425 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Gualala
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.