Bowen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably Wilson v. State (1942), Way v. State (1908)
28 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 Gilmore v. State · Pickens v. State · Amos v. State · Turner v. State · Banks v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence for. conviction as laid down in the fifth charge is in substance the same as that which in Pickett v. State, 115 Ala. 42, 50 , was affirmed to be correct. In the refusal of this charge there was error for which the judgment must be reversed.””
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.