Bishop v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber · Baze v. Rees · Nelson v. Campbell Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections et al. · Hill v. McDonough · United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mississippi's lethal injection protocol appears to be substantially similar to Kentucky's protocol that was examined in Baze .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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