State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably State v. Hooper (1934), State v. Woodman (1928)
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 Emery v. Bennett · State v. Fleeman · Brick v. National Fire Insurance · State v. Balliet · Livingston v. Lewis
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.
““. . . the rule has frequently been announced by this court and should be applied here, that whenever a litigant has a meritorious proposition of law which he is seriously pressing upon the attention of the trial court, he must raise that point in such clear and simple language that the trial court can understand it, and if his point is so obscurely hinted at that the trial court quite excusably may.fail to grasp it, it will avail naught to disturb the judgment on appeal.” (p. 869.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris · State v. Mosley
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.