Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 1992 · most notably 74 Ill. 2d 514 - People v. Beller (1979), Norton v. State (1980)
66 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 Shuemak v. State · 166 Ind. App. 199 - Merry v. State · Rogers v. State · Rinard v. State · Conway 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Whether a leading question is to be allowed ... is largely a matter of trial court discretion. Reversible error will be found only upon a showing of abuse of that discretion. Siblisk v. State, (1975) 263 Ind. 651, 655 , 336 N.E.2d 650, 652 . Questions intended in good faith to refresh the memory of a witness by directing his attention to persons and occurrences, are competent even where the witness is friendly to the party examining him. Conway v. State, (1889) 118 Ind. 482 , 21 N.E.2d 285 , 286.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. State · Lawson v. State“long as the prosecutor [was] not merely implying a personal knowledge independent of the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott v. State
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.