State v. Bishop

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defendant was entitled to a jury instruction on manslaughter where some evidence showed that “his nephew was being victimized in [a] fight” and that the nephew “was losing the fight”
• failure to instruct jury on manslaughter required reversal where the stabbing took place in the midst of an unruly brawl, with a large group of people fighting and shouting
• passion/provocation manslaughter charge warranted where defendant responded to brouhaha involving nephew

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pitts
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-06-21· cited 152×
• State v. Coyle
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-06-11· cited 149×
• State v. Copling
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1999-12-16· cited 26×
• State v. Tucker
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1993-06-11· cited 9×
• State v. Mujahid
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-11-15· cited 8×
• State v. Bishop
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-04-05· cited 7×
• A-13-16 State v. Fernando Carrero, Jr. (078071) (Bergen County and Statewide)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2017-05-22
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-09

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• State v. Crisantos (Arriagas)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-05-06· cited 205×
• State v. Grunow
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-03-12· cited 168×
• State v. Powell
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-28· cited 168×
• State v. Choice
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1985-01-16· cited 151×
• State v. SINCLAIR
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1967-07-11· cited 99×
• State v. Bowens
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-10-29· cited 87×
• State v. Saulnier
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1973-06-19· cited 62×
• State v. Sanchez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1988-03-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-17· cited 27×
• State v. Artis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1970-09-15· cited 22×
• State v. Selby
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1981-12-02· cited 22×
• State v. Vujosevic
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1985-01-30· cited 19×
• State v. Bohannan
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1986-01-16· cited 9×
• State v. Bowens
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1985-12-04· cited 9×
• State v. Vujosevic
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1985-03-29· cited 4×