Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1996
21 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 International Co. v. Clark · Morgan v. Smith · Matter of Litts v. . Risley Lumber Co. · D. E. Hewitt Lumber Co. v. Mills · Baltimore Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co. v. Jamar
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The relation of bailor and bailee is to be distinguished from that of master and servant, in that property in the hands of a servant is in the possession and control of the master, the servant having only custody, while in the case of bailment the possession and control of the property passes to the bailee during the period of the performance of the contract (emphasis supplied).’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Branscome
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.