Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably State v. Hawkins (1992), State v. Jenkins (1986)
73 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 Jordan v. State · Berger v. State · Heinze v. State · Hayette v. State · Debinski 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * 'pjfig is so because a defendant cannot be both a thief and a receiver when it is apparent that the property alleged to have been stolen is the same as that alleged to have been received. When a verdict of guilty is rendered on inconsistent counts, the defendant has a right to require the trier of facts to specify on which of the counts he is guilty * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the court had passed sentence on both of the inconsistent counts a different question would be raised.”
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.