Bowen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2019
20 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 Pickens v. Lockheed Corp. · 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley · 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of some unusual and compelling circumstance dictating otherwise, it is not in the best interest of children to be separated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court shall in all cases attempt insofar as possible, to keep the children together in a family unit. It is well recognized that the love and affection of a brother and sister at the ages of these children is important in the lives of both of them and to deprive them of the association ordinarily would not be in their best interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he record of proceedings below makes clear that the Court carefully regarded this circumstance and . . . [made] elaborate provision for assuring that Ray and Joc are together as much as is reasonably practicable given their residence in separate communities and their attendance at different schools.”
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.