Bowman v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Burtnett v. King (1949), 122 Cal. App. 2d 116 - Thomasset v. Thomasset (1953)
106 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Parker v. Parker · Bastajian v. Brown · Cohen v. Cohen · Keck v. Keck · Holtum v. Grief
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 473 also provides that a trial court may relieve a party from ‘a judgment, order, or other proceeding taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect. ... ’ The purpose of this provision, however, is to enable trial courts to set aside the judgment, order or proceeding in order to allow the party to proceed on the merits rather than to allow him to be defeated by a determination or proceeding caused by his mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect. (Riskin v. Towers, 24 Cal.2d 274, 279 [ 148 P.2d 611 , 153 A.L.R 442]; Estate of Simmons, 168 Cal. 390, 396 [ 143 P. 697 ].) The trial court in the present case did not attempt to vacate the judgment on the ground of surprise or inadvertence, but attempted to grant defendant’s request by modifying the interlocutory judgment to correct the supposed error of law. Trial courts can modify or amend their judgments only as prescribed by statute and the summary modification of judgments to correct errors of law is not authorized by section 473.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The trial court could not relieve defendant from the entry of the default because the motion under section 473 was not made within six months after the entry of default. ’ ” (Holsinger v. Holsinger, 95 Cal.App.2d 835, 836 [ 214 P.2d 412 ]; Lowenthal v. Lowenthal, 130 Cal.App.2d 527 -528 [ 279 P.2d 119 ].)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(b) The sum of $54.05 on the first day of each month for payment to Syndicate Mortgage Company to be applied on the mortgage on the home place of the parties, until said Loan shall have been paid in full; ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. West
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.