132 Ohio App. 3d 616 - Bowen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 154 Ohio App. 3d 101 - Berthelot v. Berthelot (2003), 161 Ohio App. 3d 682 - Kreilick v. Kreilick (2005)
164 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · In re Jane Doe 1 · Kunkle v. Kunkle · Kaechele v. Kaechele
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n) Any other factor that the court expressly finds to be relevant and equitable.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“any increase or involuntary decease in the party's wages, salary, bonuses, living expenses, or medical expenses.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“In divorce or legal separation proceedings, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees to either party at any stage of the proceedings, including * * * any proceeding arising from a motion to modify a prior order or decree * * * if it determines that the other party has the ability to pay the attorney's fees that the court awards. When the court determines whether to award reasonable attorney's fees to any party pursuant to this division, it shall determine whether either party will be prevented from fully litigating that party's rights and adequately protecting that party's interests if it does not award reasonable attorney's fees.”
5 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.