State v. . Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1991
1 federal appellate · 13 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prisoner excepted to the admission of the declarations of Eliza Jane Bowman, the daughter of the prisoner, in reference to the `last words' of her mother, the deceased. They were clearly admissible for the purpose for which they were proved, and the remarks of his Honor in commenting upon this testimony before the jury were perfectly legitimate. They were told it was for them to determine whether the declaration was made in the hearing of the prisoner, whether he heard and understood the statement, and if so, what was his conduct on the occasion; did he immediately take up the child and bear her away in his arms and keep her constantly in his immediate presence while the company remained; and if they believed his testimony, it was for them alone to say what value was to be attached to these circumstances as tending to prove the prisoner's guilt. S. v. Perkins , 3 Hawks, 377 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Wilson
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.