Bowles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1997
23 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 McBrayer v. State · 155 Tex. Crim. 160 - Slusser v. State · Davis v. State · 156 Tex. Crim. 231 - Ex Parte King · O'NEAL 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no testimony that appellant was reckless about the presence of another; the only testimony on the subject established that he intentionally exposed himself to complainant after calling her to ‘Look here.’ The court did not err in refusing to charge on the lesser included offenses of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briceno v. State“1. A person 2. exposes any part of his genitals 1 3. knowing a child is present 4. who is not his spouse and younger than 17 years 5. with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briceno 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.