State v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Harvey (1972), State v. Donlay (1993)
38 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 United States v. Worrall · Hicks v. Commonwealth · State v. Avery · Choen v. State · Commonwealth v. Flagg
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To ‘prosecute’ is to proceed against judicially. A ‘prosecution’ is the act of conducting or waging a proceeding in court; the means adopted to bring a supposed offender to justice and punishment by due course of law. It is also defined as the institution or commencement and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Kelly · State v. Donlay““The attorney-general shall appear for the state, and prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings, civil or criminal, in the supreme court, in which the state shall be interested or a party, and shall also, when required by the governor or either branch of the legislature, appear for the state and prosecute or defend, in any other court, or before any officer, in any cause or matter, civil or criminal, in which this state may be-a party or interested.” (Laws 1879, ch. 166, § 71, .Gen. Stat. 1909, § 8906.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person who shall attempt to commit an offense prohibited by law, and in such attempt shall do any act toward the commission of such offense but shall fail in the perpetration thereof, or shall be prevented or intercepted in executing the same, upon conviction . . . shall ... be punished. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bereman
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.