Bell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1992
20 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 Bessler Movable Stairway Co. v. Bank of Leakesville · Lake v. Perry · Buck v. Payne · Munn v. Potter · Porter Hardware Co. v. Peacock
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A general objection to evidence, overruled by the trial court, will not be considered on appeal, unless it be apparent that such evidence had no probative value on any material issue in the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. State
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.