Bowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Oken v. State (1996), Gilliam v. State (1993)
106 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 Strickland v. Washington · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]utting aside those few situations in which prejudice is presumed (actual or constructive denial of counsel and actual conflict of interest), the [petitioner] must show that the particular [ ] unreasonable errors of counsel [ ] had an adverse effect on the defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · Williams v. State“a substantial or significant possibility that the verdict of the trier of fact [was] affected.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.