Bowman v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 1986
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Monroe v. Monroe · Steele v. Robinson · Phelps v. Domville · 67 W. Va. 251 - Brown v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
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“In Monroe v. Monroe, we held that the language of the statute allows the partition of property by remaindermen, subject to the life estate of another. We went on to say, perhaps as dictum but with supporting authority, that a single life tenant who is entitled to exclusive possession cannot maintain a partition suit against the remaindermen, because the necessary element of a cotenancy is absent. Bowman, at 498.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. Henry
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