Bishop v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Wright v. West (1992), 1 Va. App. 241 - Sutphin v. Commonwealth (1985)
81 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 Webb v. Commonwealth · Inge v. Commonwealth · Stover v. Commonwealth
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all necessary circumstances proved must be consistent with guilt and inconsistent with innocence and must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of subsequent suspicious conduct does not constitute evidence sufficient to support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and give it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.