State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1971
7 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 State v. Wieners · State v. Fairlamb · State v. Pagels · Baldwin v. State · State v. Redemeier
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It remains only to consider the propriety of giving an instruction for murder in the second degree. The defendant having been convicted of murder in the second degree can not complain that he was not convicted of murder in the first degree, but if there was no evidence upon which to base an instruction for murder in the second degree the court should not have invited the jury to relieve the defendant of the penalty which the law prescribed for his crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickens v. People““As already said, the error is one of which the defendant can not complain. The judgment is affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickens v. People
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.