State v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1975
14 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 State v. Silsby
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The following words in the opinion: ‘Whether oral or written, or direct or circumstantial, or confessed,’ are intended as merely illustrative. The holding of this court, divested of superfluity, is that, where the district attorney proposes to offer in-evidence the confession of the accused, he should, in his opening statement, inform the jury of that fact. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones““In our opinion the statute requires the district attorney to set forth not only the facts which he expects to prove, but also the evidence, i.e., the nature of the evidence,, by which he expects to prove them', whether oral or written, or direct or circumstantial,, or confessed. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones
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.