Bowker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Moreau v. State (1978), State v. Cano (1968)
29 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 International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · Lake Central Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Douglas v. United States · Blocker v. United States · Holloway v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We shall not adopt a rule which would treat medical testimony as conclusive merely because it is not disputed by other medical testimony. The jury should be free to make an independent analysis of the facts on which the expert’s opinion rests, and thus exercise their historic function of passing on the credibility of the witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsman v. State · Alto v. State“(b) Plain Error. Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dimmick v. State · Freeman 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.