Bowles v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2013
22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 193rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Kentucky v. Graham · Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board · United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. · Schroeder v. Texas Iron Works, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person may not sue on a claim against a county unless the person has presented the claim to the commissioner’s court and the commissioner’s court has neglected or refused to pay all or part of the claim.”
2 later decisions 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.