Bowen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Parker v. State (1976), Commonwealth v. Gardner (1978)
81 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 Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Shelton v. Tucker · Williams v. Florida · Wardius v. Oregon
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a rare occasion when a single omission or commission by counsel will be so grievous as to deny the defendant a fair trial. Payne v. State, (1973) [261] Ind. [221], 301 N.E.2d 514 ; Haddock v. State, (1973) 260 Ind. 593 , 298 N.E.2d 418 . Any error in counsel's trial preparation by failing to file the notice pales upon slightest inspection of the record in this matter."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Priest v. State““[T]he opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation.” Neil v. Biggers, supra, 409 U.S. at 199 , 93 S.Ct. at 382 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a criminal proceeding in which the accused may be condemned to suffer grievous loss of either his liberty or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State
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.