Bowman v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
4 district · 16 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 Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe · In Re Will of Skarda · Mine Supply, Incorporated v. Elayer Company · Ross v. Lewis · Matter of Estate of Oney
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the unlawful exercise of dominion and control over personal property belonging to another in exclusion or defiance of the owner's rights, or acts constituting an unauthorized and injurious use of another's property, or a wrongful detention after demand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Brennan
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.