Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Hamm v. City of Rock Hill (1964), Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission v. Riverdale Heights Volunteer Fire Co. (1987)
4 district · 62 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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109
Relies on United States v. Schooner Peggy · Bell v. State of Maryland · United States v. La Franca · Massiah v. United States · Bruner v. United States
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he general presumption is that all statutes, State and federal, are intended to operate prospectively and the presumption is found to have been rebutted only if there are clear expressions in the statute to the contrary. Retroact[ivity], even where permissible, is not favored and is not found, except upon the plainest mandate in the act.” Bell v. State, 236 Md. 356, 369 , 204 A.2d 54 (1964). See also cases cited in 20 M.L.E. Statutes § 164 (1962). This rule of construction is particularly applicable where the statute adversely affects substantive rights, rather than only altering procedural machinery. Beechwood Coal Co. v. Lucas, 215 Md. 248, 253-54 , 137 A.2d 680 (1958) and cases therein cited. See also Janda v. General Motors Corp., 237 Md. 161, 169-71 , 205 A.2d 228 (1964).”
3 later decisions 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.