Commonwealth v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1990
6 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 Commonwealth ex rel. Bleecher v. Rundle · Commonwealth ex rel. Huey v. Dye · Commonwealth ex rel. Houser v. Seip · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Aronson v. Price · Commonwealth ex rel. Osburn v. Haas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“f the prisoner or his counsel shall state that he or they desire to test the legality of his arrest, the judge of such court of record shall fix a reasonable time to be allowed him within which to apply for a writ of habeas corpus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.