State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably State v. Warledo (2008), State v. Torres (2005)
26 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 Mapp v. United States · State v. White & Stewart · State v. Verge · Garrett v. City of Topeka · State v. Jasper
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[p]hotographs depicting the extent, nature, and number of wounds inflicted are generally relevant in a murder case. [Citation omitted.] Photographs which are relevant and material in assisting the juiy’s understanding of medical testimony are admissible. Specifically, photographs which aid a pathologist in explaining the cause of death are admissible. [Citation omitted.] Photographs used to prove the manner of death and the violent nature of the crime are relevant and admissible. [Citation omitted.]’ ” Green, 274 Kan. at 147 (quoting Bell, 273 Kan. at 53 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adams · State v. Green
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.