Bowler v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Medical Device Alliance, Inc. v. Ahr (2000), DeMarce v. DeMarce (1966)
32 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 Chase Nat Bank v. City of Norwalk Ohio · Haley v. Eureka County Bank · Johnston v. Delay · Shelton v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Washoe · Taylor v. Taylor
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If the court is to dispose of the community as the statute requires it to do, it is obvious that it must have power to ascertain the extent of the community. It must, then, be recognized to have power to examine into the nature of the property rights of the parties and determine the character of such rights in the light of the marital relationship. * * * ” 269 P.2d at 836”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeMarce v. DeMarce““The law does not impose upon any person absolutely entitled to a hearing and burden of voluntary intervention in a suit to which he is a stranger. . . . Unless duly summoned to appear in a legal proceeding, a person not a privy may rest assured that a judgment recovered therein will not affect his legal rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“creature or officer, having no powers other than those conferred upon him by the order of his appointment.”
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.