Bell v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2020
22 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 Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. · Anderson v. Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Inc. · Huiet v. Schwob Manufacturing Co. · Berry v. State · City of Atlanta v. Watson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutional question will not be decided unless it is essential to the resolution of the case. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“treated no differently than any other party in a civil action involving injury or disease. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial of any civil case involving injury or disease,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.