State v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Stepney (1983), State v. Tempest (1995)
83 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 Bruton v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Keeble v. United States · 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Qjuestions as to the character of the evidence offered, and the manner and extent of its presentation, are largely within the discretion of the Trial Court, and the exercise of that discretion will not be interfered with unless there has been an abuse to the prejudice of the defendant * * State v. Bowden, 113 R.I. 649, 660 , 324 A.2d 631, 638 (1974) (quoting State v. Reardon, 101 R.I. 18, 25 , 219 A.2d 767, 771-72 (1966)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Malone
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.