Bowden v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2010
8 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 236 Pa. Super. 541 - Commonwealth ex rel. McDermott v. McDermott · 12 Pa. Commw. 602 - David v. BELLEVUE LOCUST GARAGE · McIntosh v. Borough of Pleasant Hills
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ohabitation and reputation are not a marriage; they are but circumstances from which a marriage may be presumed, and such presumption may always be rebutted and will wholly disappear in the face of proof that no marriage has occurred.”
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.