Bowers v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thummel v. King · Richard E. Ivie, Jimmie R. Ivie, LaDonna Small, and Bernard Ivie v. Arnold L. Smith and Sidney B. Smith · In the Interest of: J.A.R., D.K.R., and A.E.R., Children Under Seventeen Years of Age, Greene County Juvenile Office v. D.G.R. · Storey v. State · Juvenile Officer v. R.R.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim that the trial court's judgment is against the weight of the evidence presupposes there is sufficient evidence to support the judgment and effectively weighs how much persuasive value evidence has. Such a challenge serves only to check the trial court's potential to abuse its power in weighing the evidence. An appellate court approaches such arguments cautiously and reverses only in rare instances when it has a firm belief the trial court's judgment is wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When the court finds that each parent is unfit, unsuitable, or unable to be a custodian, or the welfare of the child requires, and it is in the best interests of the child, then custody, temporary custody or visitation may be awarded to any other person or persons deemed by the court to be suitable and able to provide an adequate and stable environment for the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. A.A.B. v. A.D.L.
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.