Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1975 · most notably Commonwealth v. McCan (1931), Harris v. State (1941)
25 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 Pilgreen v. State · Holt v. State · Jones v. State · Powell v. Banks · Franklin 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is legally impossible to commit the offense of assault with intent to commit a rape without committing the offense of assault. The greater offense always includes the less ... both assault and battery become component parts of the felony, and under an indictment for the highest offense there may be a conviction of either of the lower ones.”
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.