Bowman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2019
22 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. Evans · State v. Hutchinson · State v. Faulkner · Nance v. State · Gore 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he remarks ... did not constitute an objection to the instruction; he did not offer to the court a definite statement of the ground for his objection; the reasons for his dissatisfaction were not apparent from the record; and it certainly cannot be said that further objection would have been futile or useless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watts v. State“even though you touched upon it, you really didn't go into a more specific kind of imperfect defense of others. But that's my only comment. I think it was a little sketchy, even though you incorporated some of it, but it wasn't exactly what I had in mind”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watts 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.