State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Shuler (2001), Bell v. Evatt (1995)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Dusky v. United States · Illinois v. Allen · Drope v. Missouri · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“information as to penalty is of no aid to the jury in determining whether the defendant committed the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Evatt“Mr. Bell, I am telling you. I know, Mr. Bell, that you understand the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Evatt“she never went out of the house alone after her sister's abduction and murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGahee 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.