Bishop v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Sec. 1: The court may set any criminal case for a pre-trial hearing -before it is set for trial upon its merits, and direct the defendant and his attorney, if any of -record, and'the-State’s attorney, to appear before the court at the time and place stated in the court’s order for a conference and hearing. • The defendant must be present at the arraignment, and his- presence is required during any pretrial proceeding. The pre-trial hearing shall be to determine any of the following matters: [[Image here]] (6) Motions to suppress evidence— When a hearing on the motion to suppress evidence is granted, the court may determine the merits of said motion on' the motions themselves, or upon opposing affidavits, or upon oral testimony, subject to the discretion of the court;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Velasquez