State v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably State v. Kasper (1979), State v. Lapham (1977)
62 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 Isaac v. United States · Bradford v. State · Tarter v. State · LaFaso v. LaFaso · State v. Ciocca
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is for the jury to determine from the testimony whether such experts have sufficient skill to render their opinion of any importance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers · State v. Hanson“when based upon conversations or dealings which he has had with such person, or upon his appearance, or upon any fact bearing upon his mental condition, with the witness’ own knowledge and observation, he having first testified to such conversations, dealings, appearance or other observed facts, as the basis for his opinion. [Id. at 228. (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lapham“Insanity is not an affirmative defence. It is a means of meeting the case made by the prosecution and weakening one of its essentials; beyond this it need not go.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Messier
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.