Bowman v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2016
12 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 Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines · Cooper v. Carlson · In Re the Adoption of F.H. · Parker v. Northern Mixing Co. · Alaska Placer Company v. Lee
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the master to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An affirmative defense can generally be defined as new matter not set forth in the complaint which constitutes a defense; or new matter which, assuming the complaint to be true, is a defense to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glamann v. Kirk“successful with regard to the main issues in the action,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLeod v. Parnell
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.