Bishop v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Lane v. State (1996), Wheeler v. State (2002)
39 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 Montgomery v. State · Harris v. State · Plante v. State · Beets v. State · Arcila 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blakeney v. State · Fain v. State“not provide evidence of actions so unusual and distinctive and so nearly identical to the charged offense as to amount to a `signature.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booker 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.