Bowles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 154 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2017
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on United States v. Reynolds · Fitzgerald v. Penthouse International Ltd.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the case cannot be tried without compromising sensitive foreign policy secrets, the case must be dismissed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where no amount of effort or care will safeguard the privileged information”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.