Bowline v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2006
14 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 Montgomery v. McNutt · Davis v. Wachter · Couch v. Couch
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is a correct doctrine to say that payments of money made by a debtor to an existing creditor, or made by one who is under obligation to pay to the receiver thereof, . . . will be deemed presumptively to apply as credits upon the obligation, and not as gratuities or gifts.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, an unexplained payment of money will be presumed to be made in payment of debt, or as a loan, rather than as a gift.”
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.