State v. Bowen & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably Roman v. Lobe (1926), 89 Wash. 2d 161 - Crane Towing, Inc. v. Gorton (1977)
30 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Munn v. Illinois · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one can take exception to the abstract proposition stated in the majority opinion. Granting that it is within the power, as is held by the majority and as I admit, of the state to provide that all commission merchants must take out a license and must give a bond, and make the report required by the statute and subject their hooks to the inspection of all who are interested, the real point in this case is not whether that can be done, but whether the legislature can say that it shall be done by some commission merchants and not by others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““As a general proposition, the questions of the wisdom, necessity, and policy of the law are for the legislature to determine, and if the legislature proceeds regularly, violating no other constitutional restriction or prohibition, the questions of fact as to the wisdom, necessity, and policy of the law are conclusively determined if a state of facts could exist which would justify the legislation in question. . . . “Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of the statute until the contrary is shown beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]very possible presumption is in favor of the validity of the statute ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.