Bowling v. Bowling’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1979
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Myers · Hegwood v. Hegwood
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the wife so granted a divorce against the husband . . . . shall be entitled to one-third [1/3] of the husband’s personal property absolutely, and one-third [1/3] of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage for her life, unless the same shall have been relinquished by her in legal form ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. Gross“When a divorce is awarded to the wife the statute affirmatively requires that she be granted a third of the husband’s personal property absolutely and a third of his real property for life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. Gross
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.