Bowen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 172 W. Va. 656 - State v. Sheppard (1983), 137 Wis. 2d 65 - Douglas County v. Edwards (1987)
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 Barker v. Wingo · Faretta v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Lamb v. Brown · Edwards 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a defendant makes a demand [to proceed pro se], it is incumbent upon the trial court to advise him on the record of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, receive from him an intelligent and voluntary waiver of his right to counsel, and in appropriate circumstances appoint standby counsel to advise and assist the defendant upon his request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sharon D. 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.