Bowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Neil v. Biggers · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe · Southern Pacific Company v. Castro · Martin v. Pendergrass v. W. S. Neil, Warden, Helen Jones Recor v. Martha K. Linder, Warden
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the pronouncement of a judgment where a defendant has been retried following an order granting a retrial by a court of this state or, where in obedience to a decision of a court of the United States, it becomes necessary that the jury’s verdict be modified to prevent a sentence on the second trial being greater than the verdict pronounced at the first trial, the trial court is hereby authorized to modify the jury’s verdict and pronounce judgment accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sommerville 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.