State v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2010
19 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 · Commonwealth v. Spardute · Parker v. United States · State v. Mottram · Commonwealth v. Fatalo
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The extent of the force used and the age of the child were clearly sufficient circumstances to compel the conclusion that the blows the Appellant . . .• struck constituted Assault and Battery of a high and aggravated nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coombs
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.