155 W. Va. 562 - State v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr (1975), 198 W. Va. 620 - State v. Crabtree (1996)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · State v. Taylor · State v. Clark · 81 W. Va. 522 - State v. Snider · State v. Bail
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]hese cases are distinguishable from the instant case, in that in those cases there was either some violent action taken or threatened coupled with spoken threats of some violent action, while in the instant case the victim made no threats and his only `violent' actions were to come on defendant's porch at a rapid pace and reach toward the door."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reading of all the testimony in this case leads us to believe that the verdict of the jury of murder in the first degree was •correct based on the evidence and circumstances of this case and is amply supported by the evidence. ... The defendant attempts to rely upon self-defense, but the elements of self-defense are so lacking that the jury could reasonably, under the facts of this case, find that there was no self-defense of defendant or his wife involved. . . [I]n the instant case the victim made no threats and his only ‘violent’ actions were to come on defendant’s porch at a rapid pace and reach toward the door.”
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.