Bowens v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1996
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lifsey v. Mims · Martin 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where any suit shall be instituted or defended ... by an ... assignee, or transferee . . . of a deceased person, the opposite party shall not be admitted to testify in his own favor against the . . . deceased person as to transactions or communications with such .. . deceased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. Kennedy
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.