Bowman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Pérez v. United States (2009), Smith v. State (2001)
34 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 Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Young · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he gravity of the [impropriety], its direct relationship to the issue of innocence or guilt, and the effect of specific corrective instructions of the trial court, if any, against the weight of the evidence of appellant’s guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“This court has stated repeatedly that an attorney must not ask a jury to “send a message” to anyone...... Juries are not in the message-sending business. Their sole duty is to return a verdict based on the facts before them. Urging a jury to “send a message” is impermissible because it implies that there is a reason to find the defendant guilty other than what the evidence has shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[B]eeause burglary consists only of an entry with intent to commit another offense, it is irrelevant that appellant did not actually carry out that intent by assaulting [the intended victim] once he was inside her house.. [T]he elements of burglary do not include the identity of the victim of the crime which the burglar intends to commit after entering the burglarized premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lee v. United States
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.