Bowman v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle · Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc. · Johnson v. Johnson · Stevenson v. Stevenson · Rutherford v. Rutherford
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promote fraud, reward misconduct, and contravene legislative intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Odom · Bojilov v. Bojilov“[W]here lack of ownership status as of the date of marital litigation is attributable to any purposeful act or omission by the spouse, the property shall be deemed 'owned' within the meaning of [ section 20-3-630 ] so as to include the marital portion in the marital estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Odom“South Carolina's strong policy towards finality of judgments trumps a party's ability to set aside a judgment where, as here, the party could have discovered the evidence prior to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Ray
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.