State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2015
18 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 State v. Green · Mortimer v. Evans · State v. Puckett · State v. Jones · State v. Bockert
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When evaluating evidence presented at a preliminary hearing, the judge must sericusly consider tibe defendant’s defense and pass judgment on the credibility and competency of both the State’s and the defendant’s witnesses. If there is a conflict in witness testimony that creates a question of fact for the jury, the preliminaiy hearing judge must accept the version of the testimony which is most favorable to the State.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In appeals by the prosecution from an order discharging the defendant for lack of probable cause that a crime has been committed, this court follows the same standard for weighing the evidence as the judge at the preliminary examination. This court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence when considering the trial court’s probable cause finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Phelps
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.