People v. Bowker’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably People v. Humphrey (1996), 53 Cal. 3d 1289 - People v. McAlpin (1991)
84 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]xpert testimony on rape trauma syndrome may play a particularly useful role by disabusing the jury of some widely held misconceptions about rape and rape victims, so that it may evaluate the evidence free of the constraints of popular myths.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Beyond the tailoring of the evidence itself, the jury must be instructed simply and directly that the expert's testimony is not intended and should not be used to determine whether the victim's molestation claim is true. The jurors must understand that CSAAS research approaches the issue from a perspective opposite to that of the jury. CSAAS assumes a molestation has occurred and seeks to describe and explain common reactions of children to the experience. [Citation omitted.] The evidence is admissible solely for the purpose of showing that the victim's reactions as demonstrated by the evidence are not inconsistent with having been molested. [Emphasis in original.]”
2 later decisions 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.