Bower v. Landa’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 115 - Steed v. Imperial Airlines (1974), Clark v. Clark (1964)
2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 10 Utah 2d 83 - In Re the Estates of Williams · Evans v. Shanklin · Ginochio v. City & County of San Francisco · Smith v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. · Zoell's Estate
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘heirs’ used in the wrongful death statute (NRS 12.090) includes any person entitled to inherit the estate of a decedent.” (Emphasis added.) 4”
2 later decisions 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.