Bowling v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Baze v. Rees (2008), Thomas Clyde Bowling, Jr. v. Phillip Parker, Warden (2003)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Young · Boyde v. California · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Mills v. Maryland
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bowling was not denied a fair and impartial jury. The trial court provided Bowling more than twice the number of peremptory challenges which are normally granted. RCr 9.40. The claim that the trial judge’s refusal to excuse jurors for cause unfairly exhausted his peremptory challenges is without foundation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he trial judge determined that the trial strategy used by Bowling's counsel had a better chance of success than any of which the trial judge could think in light of the strong evidence of guilt presented by the prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant's act or acts of killing were intentional and resulted in multiple deaths.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.