Van Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Ellis (2009), United States v. Saavedra-Velazquez (2009)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · Darnell v. State · Deeds v. State · State v. Verganadis · Larsen 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to prove attempted sexual assault, the prosecution must establish that (1) [the defendant] intended to commit sexual assault; (2) [the defendant] performed some act toward the commission of the crime; and (3) [the defendant] failed to consummate its commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Applying Darnell to the instant case, the fact that no child was available does not, in itself, bar appellant's conviction for attempted sexual assault. Rather, appellant stipulated that he intended to commit sexual assault upon the five or six-year-old girl whose photograph he selected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State“[T]he plainer the intent to commit the offense the more likely that steps taken in the early stages of the commission of [the] crime will satisfy the overt act requirement.”
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.