Bishop v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Watson v. State (2004), Fair v. State (2008)
48 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Mize v. State · Carr v. State · State v. Royal · Sanders v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a defendant raises an affirmative defense and offers evidence in support thereof, the State has the burden of disproving that defense beyond a reasonable doubt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. State · Lynn v. State“whether the description . . . is sufficient to enable `a prudent officer executing the warrant to locate it definitely and with reasonable certainty.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fair v. State
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.