Bowen v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2015
15 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 Savings Bank v. Ward · Ingalls v. Roosevelt County · Government of India v. Cook Industries, Inc. · Evans v. Artek System Corp. · EF Hutton & Company v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a legal duty exists is a question of a law, and absent a duty, there is no liability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]n attorney who represents a corporation does not, because of that corporate representation, also represent the individual stockholders[, officers or directors].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Meyer v. Mulligan“(a) A lawyer employed or retained by an organization represents the organization acting through its duly authorized constituents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyer v. Mulligan
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.