State v. Bowser’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2002
2 district · 17 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. Bowser · In re Stevens
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a criminal offense is a felony, under our statutes, is determined by the sentence which might lawfully be imposed, and not by the sentence actually imposed in a particular case.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Christensen““An offense punishable — that is, that may be punished — by confinement and hard labor for a term, not exceeding two years is a felony.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Christensen
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.