United States v. Bowdach’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 220 · 1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1991
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 891 · 18 U.S.C. § 892 · 18 U.S.C. § 894
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Michelson v. United States · Hirabayashi v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any extension of credit with respect to which it is the understanding of the creditor and the debtor at the time it is made that delay in making repayment or failure to make repayment could result in the use of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to the person, reputation, or property of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any means which involves the use, or an express or implicit threat of use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to the person, reputation, or property of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the creditor had a reputation for the use of extortionate means to collect extensions of credit or to punish the nonrepayment thereof.”
1 later decision 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.