Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 343 So. 2d 9 - State v. Bales (1977), 362 So. 2d 668 - Whitted v. State (1978)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 255 So. 2d 675 - Chesebrough v. State · 257 So. 2d 21 - Franklin v. State · 262 So. 2d 881 - Orlando Sports Stadium, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Powell · Fogle v. Fogle · 284 So. 2d 377 - State v. Lindsay
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The term `lewdness' shall be construed to include any indecent or obscene act."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(3) It shall further be unlawful in the state: (a) To offer to commit, or to commit, or to engage in, prostitution, lewdness, or assignation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“conveys a sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practice.”
2 later decisions 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.