Bishop v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
18 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 Smith v. State · State v. Jackson · Lattisaw v. State · Mayfield v. State · State v. Frederick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“THE CLERK: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict? THE JURY: Yes. THE CLERK: Who shall say for you? THE JURY: Our foreman. THE CLERK: Mr. Foreman, please stand. In Criminal 81275, how do you find the defendant as to count number one, burglary first degree? THE FOREPERSON: Not guilty. THE CLERK: How do you find the defendant as to count two, theft over $300 by taking. THE FOREPERSON: Not guilty. THE CLERK: How do you find the defendant as to count two, theft over $300 by receiving stolen property. THE FOREPERSON: Guilty with reservations. THE COURT: Excuse me. There is no guilty with reservations. Either guilty or not guilty, sir. THE FOREPERSON: Guilty. THE COURT: You may be seated. You may poll the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To cure the ambiguity in [the juror’s] verdict, the trial court may have employed either of two options. The safest course would be for the court to send the jury out for further deliberations ... with the simple instruction that their verdict must be unanimous. Alternatively, the trial court may attempt to clarify the juror’s ambiguous response by questioning the juror directly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler 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.