State v. Bowser’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2018
23 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 State v. Campbell · Dunville v. State · People v. Pearne · State v. Hobl · Commonwealth v. Adams
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment will have to be reversed; and in another trial all consideration of any breach of the ordinance as a factor in establishing the culpable negligence of the defendant should be omitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The culpable negligence with which the [fourth-degree manslaughter statute] is concerned pertains to some breach of duty imposed by statute or general principle of law, not by city ordinance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.