State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance (1980), State v. Barts (1986)
187 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 Johnson v. Stevenson · State v. Tippett · State v. Arnold · State v. Gammons · State v. Bell
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ntent is a mental attitude seldom provable by direct evidence. It must ordinarily be proved by circumstances from which it may be inferred.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]vidence of what a defendant does after he breaks and enters a house is evidence of his intent at the time of the breaking and entering.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Defendant entered the sleeping apartment of Bonnie Louise Whicker in the nighttime by cutting the window screen; that he got in bed with his intended victim, placed a hand over her mouth when he was discovered, threatened to cut her throat if either she or her sister screamed, and pulled up his outside pants and ran from the room when the other girls appeared and turned on the light.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Freeman
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.