Dowling v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.2d 537 · 1933
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 639
Relies on Diaz v. United States · Morgan v. Daniels · Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Spiller v. Atchison T & S F Ry Co · Rowland v. Boyle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the letter is an unsworn declaration of Mas, it was admitted without objection, or limitation, and even if it [were] incompetent, once before the court it was evidence like any other probative fact.”
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.