Gowen v. Harley’s Empirical Analysis
56 F. 973 · 1893
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1927 · most notably Cole v. German Savings & Loan Soc. (1903), Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. McElroy (1897)
42 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Hough v. Railway Co. · Baltimore Co v. Baugh · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Rosenthal v. Walker · United States v. Tynen
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•Privileges granted by special act are not affected by inconsistent general legislation on the same subject, but the special act and the general laws must stand together, the one as the law of the particular case, and the other as the general law of the loud."’”
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.