Commonwealth v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Mahdi · Commonwealth v. Grey · Commonwealth v. Gould · Commonwealth v. Shelley
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.
“[e]vidence of an expert's billing rate is admissible as evidence of bias and it is appropriate to remind the jury that an expert was retained by the defendant,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is improper for a prosecutor to suggest that an expert witness's testimony was 'bought' by a defendant or to characterize the witness as a 'hired gun' where ... there was no evidence that he was paid more than his customary fee”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“admit[ting] evidence that a defendant used this word to describe a man of color, the judge must be convinced that the probative weight of such evidence justifies th[e] risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.