32 Ala. App. 357 - Bowen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1987 · most notably Kelly v. State (1962), 34 Ala. App. 610 - Stovall v. State (1949)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Cobb v. Malone · 30 Ala. App. 316 - Taylor v. State · Girardino v. Bir. So. R. R. · Horn v. State · Meredith v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he facts to be looked to as important in determining this intent to take life, . . . are the character of the assault, the use or lack of a deadly weapon, and the presence or absence of excusing or palliating circumstances.”
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.