Bishop v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Smith v. State (2003), Abdullah v. State (1990)
27 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 Anders v. California · Dixon v. State · Caton v. State · Sumlin v. State · Trotter 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A confession of a defendant, unless made in open court, will not warrant a conviction, unless accompanied with other proof that the offense was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. State“`[a] confession is an admission of guilt as to the commission of a criminal act.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens 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.