Bova v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Harrington v. California · Geders 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no matter how brief the recess, a defendant in a criminal proceeding must have access to his attorney.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“petitioner has shown no actual prejudice and we are satisfied beyond any reasonable doubt that the brief restraint on defense consultation did not contribute to the jury's finding petitioner guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bova v. Dugger“[T]he trial court has complete discretion in permitting recesses and in controlling recess duration.”
1 later decision 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.