Bowman v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 1145 · 1982
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Blunt v. Lower Merion School District (2014), 171 Cal. App. 4th 1305 - Troyk v. Farmers Group, Inc. (2009)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Rakas v. Illinois · Singleton v. Wulff
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Injury-in-fact is not Mount Everest. [Citation.] (`The contours of the injury-in-fact requirement, while not precisely defined, are very generous,' requiring only that claimant `allege[] some specific, "identifiable trifle”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At bottom, 'the gist of the question of standing' is whether petitioners have 'such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the question is whether any plaintiffs are entitled to relief under a statute which does not expressly provide the relief which is sought, the question is properly framed as whether a cause of action can be implied. The court must in that case decide whether a newly-fashioned remedial structure should be made available to a class of litigants not expressly entitled to relief under the statute. “In contrast, when there already exists a cause of action prescribing a particular remedy for a defined class of persons and the question is simply whether a particular plaintiff is also entitled to that relief, the question is properly addressed as one of standing. In such a case, the inquiry focuses on whether the plaintiff is the proper person to press the claim. “Id. [Bowman v. Wilson, 672 F.2d 1145 ,] at 1151 n. 10 [(3d Cir. 1982)]. (citations omitted) In the present action, the district court dismissed the Davis’s claim against the Housing Authority solely on its conclusion that the Davises did not have standing because their interests ‘are not consistent with the purposes implicit in the statute at issue.’ Davis, 1996 WL 377189 , at [(E.D. Pa. July 3, 1996)]. Accordingly, we need not reach the separate question of whether the Lead Act provides the Davises, as successor tenants, with a cause of action against the Housing Authority for its alleged breach of duties.” Davis, 121 F.3d at 94-95 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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