Bowen v. Hockley’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.2d 781 · 1934
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Mayflower Hotel Stockholders Protective Committee v. Mayflower Hotel Corp. (1951), Fleming v. Napili Kai, Ltd. (1967)
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 124
Relies on Fosdick v. Schall · Miltenberger v. Logansport Railway Co. · Burnham v. Bowen · Southern Railway Company v. Carnegie Steel Company · Gregg v. Metropolitan Trust Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the Chancellor always has had, and always must have, a certain power and freedom of action, not possessed by the courts of law, of adapting the doctrines which he administers. He can extend those doctrines to new relations, and shape his remedies to new circumstances, if the relations and circumstances come within the principles of equity, where a court of law in analogous cases would be powerless to give any relief. In fact there is no limit to the various forms and kinds of specific remedy which he may grant, adopted to novel conditions of right and obligation, which are constantly arising from the movements of society. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the glories of equity jurisprudence is that it is not bound by the strict rules of the common law, but can mold its decrees to do justice amid all the vicissitudes and intricacies of life____ If relief had been granted only where precedent could be found for it, this great system would never have been developed; and if such a narrow view of equitable powers is adopted now, the result will be the return of the rigid and unyielding system which equity jurisprudence was designed to remedy.”
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.