Sylvian Dale Bishop v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 664 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Galtieri v. Wainwright (1978), United States v. Campa (2006)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Brinegar v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Furman v. Georgia · Irvin v. Dowd · Ker v. State of California
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Look at [the defendant’s] attitude during the week. Have you seen one little ounce of remorse on his face, one outburst, one apparent showing of concern? He’s sat there like a knot on a log through the whole trial. He didn’t talk to his lawyer, hasn’t said anything. He just sits there. He doesn’t do anything. Absolutely nothing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court is necessarily the first and best judge of community sentiment and the indifference of the prospective juror. Appellate courts, especially in a collateral attack, will interfere only on a showing of manifest probability of prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.