State v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Thomas (1978), State v. Fearing (1985)
27 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. . Thomas · State v. . Morgan · State v. Courtney · State v. Gibbs · McCurdy v. Ashley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n indictment is sufficient if it charges all essential elements of the offense with sufficient particularity to apprise the defendant of the specific accusations against him and (1) will enable him to prepare his defense and (2) will protect him against another prosecution for that same offense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ . . . The trial judge observed the child’s demeanor during the voir dire examination and cross-examination. The finding by Judge Martin that she was qualified to testify was supported by competent evidence. The question of the victim’s competency to testify rested in the sound discretion of the trial court. McCurdy v. Ashley, 259 N.C. 619 , 131 S.E. 2d 321 ; State v. Merritt, 236 N.C. 363 , 72 S.E. 2d 754 ; State v. Jackson, 211 N.C. 202 , 189 S.E. 510 ; State v. Satterfield, 207 N.C. 118 , 176 S.E. 466 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cox
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.