Bowes v. Bowes’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Kowalski v. Kowalski (1991), 49 N.C. App. 463 - Britt v. Britt (1980)
38 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 Sayland Ex Rel. McLendon v. Sayland · Conrad v. Conrad · 10 N.C. App. 463 - Robinson v. Robinson · Sguros v. Sguros · Harris v. Harris
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) failing to exercise [her] reasonable capacity to earn, (2) deliberately avoiding [her] family’s financial responsibilities, (3) acting in deliberate disregard for [her] support obligations, (4) refusing to seek or to accept gainful employment, (5) willfully refusing to secure or take a job, (6) deliberately not applying [herself] to [her] business, (7) intentionally depressing [her] income to an artificial low, or (8) intentionally leaving [her] employment to go into another business.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Capacity to earn . . . may be the basis of an award if it is based upon a proper finding that the husband is deliberately depressing his income or indulging himself in excessive spending because of a disregard of his marital obligation to provide reasonable support for his wife and children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Intent being a mental attitude, it must ordinarily be proven, if proven at all, by circumstantial evidence, that is, by proving facts from which the fact sought to be proven may be inferred.'”
2 later decisions 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.