United States v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.2d 716 · 1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1961
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Williamson v. United States · Clune v. United States · Dayton Power & Light Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong · Moore 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that in trials by jury it is their province to determine the ultimate facts, and that the general rule is that witnesses are permitted to testify to the primary facts within their knowledge, but not to their opinions. And it is also true that this has at times-led to the statement that witnesses may not give their opinions upon the ultimate facts which the jury are to decide, because that would supplant their judgment and usurp their province. But such a statement is not to be taken-literally. It but reflects the general' rule, which is subject to important qualifications, and never was intended' to close any reasonable avenue to the truth in the investigation of questions of fact. Besides, the tendency of modern decisions is not only to give as. wide a scope as is reasonably possible-to the investigation of such questions, but also to accord to the trial judge a certain discretion in determining what, testimony has a tendency to establish the ultimate facts, and to disturb his. decision admitting testimony of that, character only when it plainly appears that the testimony had no legitimate-bearing upon the questions at issue and was calculated to prejudice the minds of the jurors. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Heesen
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.