Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Grillot v. State (2003), United States v. Aguila-Montes De Oca (2011)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Faretta v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Lockhart v. McCree · Lowenfield v. Phelps · In re Disbarment of Kleindienst
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to request that hearings on pre-trial motions for a continuance and for his commitment to the Arkansas State Hospital for a mental examination be recorded and thus failed to preserve for appellate review petitioner’s claim that he was improperly excluded from these hearings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because instead of committing [Bell] to the Arkansas State Hospital ..., the trial court ordered either of two medical doctors at a local mental health clinic to examine [Bell] to determine if there were reasonable grounds to believe [he] was insane.”
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.