State v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Moncla (1997), State v. Sanders (1995)
2 district · 48 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. Sutherland · State v. Boos · State v. Patterson · In re Fleming · State v. Keeler
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases where the crime charged may include some lesser crime, it is the duty of the trial court to instruct the jury, not only as to the crime charged but as to all lesser crimes of which the accused might be found guilty under the information or indictment and upon the evidence adduced.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rader · State v. Pierce““An included crime may be any of the following: (a) A lesser degree of the same crime; (b) an attempt to commit the crime charged; (c) an attempt to commit a lesser degree of the crime charged; or (d) a crime necessarily proved if the crime charged were proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rader“does not arise unless there is evidence supporting the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sanders
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.