Bowman v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming based in part on the fact that the State responded proportionally when defense counsel opened the door
• \[T]he Eighth Amendment demands that a capital defendant be given wide latitude to present any relevant evidence of potentially mitigating value that might convince the jury to impose a sentence of life in prison instead of death.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brad Sigmon v. Bryan Stirling
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-04-14· cited 30×
• State v. Heyward
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2019-05-15· cited 5×
• Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan Stirling
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-08-16· cited 4×
• John Wood v. Bryan Stirling
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-03-02· cited 1×
• State v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-03-25
• Brad Sigmon v. Bryan Stirling
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-04-15
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-05-13
• State v. Jerome Jenkins Jr.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2022-04-06
• State v. Michael Cliff Eubanks
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-08-03
• Maron Alexander Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-11-05

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Barefoot v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 4,617×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• California v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-27· cited 1,207×
• Kelly v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-09· cited 186×
• Caprood v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 86×
• State v. Plath
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-01-17· cited 85×
• Billy Wayne Waldrop v. Ronald E. Jones
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-05-02· cited 60×
• Suber v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-01-22· cited 53×
• State v. Torres
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-12-13· cited 51×
• State v. Koon
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-12-20· cited 50×
• Douglas Carroll Goodson v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-09-20· cited 48×