Commonwealth v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. McMullen (2008), 2011 Pa. Super. 78 - Branham v. Rohm and Haas Co. (2011)
30 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 Taylor and Selby Appeals · Burtt Will · Hatchard v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We read that case as standing only for the proposition that documents are to be considered sources where their production, even with all names redacted, could breach the confidentiality of a human source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'Source' means not only the identity of the person, but likewise includes documents , inanimate objects and all source[s] of information .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.