State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Orr (1997), State v. Mason (1999)
40 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 Pierce v. Board of County Commissioners · 6 Kan. App. 2d 688 - State v. Puckett · State v. Irving · State v. Puckett · United States v. Potvin
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘(1) Cases where the newly asserted theory involves only a question of law arising on proved or admitted facts and which is finally determinative of the case; ‘(2) Questions raised for the first time on appeal if consideration of the same is necessary to serve the ends of justice or to prevent denial of fundamental rights; and ‘(3) That a judgment of a trial court may be upheld on appeal even though that court may have relied on the wrong ground or assigned a wrong reason for its decision.’ [Citation omitted.]” State v. Bell, 258 Kan. 123, 126 , 899 P.2d 1000 (1995).”
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.