Bowles v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Lane v. Scarborough (1973), Davis v. Davis (1967)
21 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 Gould Morris Electric Co. v. Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. · Jones v. . Casstevens · Archbell v. Archbell · Smith v. Smith · Smith v. . Smith
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to ascertain the intention of the parties as expressed in the agreement, and to carry out such intention as nearly as may be done without violence to the language used.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the cardinal rule ... in determining the effect of property settlement agreements,'”
1 later decision 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.