339 So. 2d 96 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State (1985), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
44 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 Dennison v. State · 338 So. 2d 423 - Morton v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose in establishing a chain of custody is to show a reasonable probability that the [evidence] was not tampered with.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Our function, where sufficiency of the evidence is before us, is to examine the record and determine if the State put on sufficient evidence from which a jury might have found the accused guilty. We must allow all reasonable presumptions for the correctness of the verdict, bearing in mind that conflicting testimony presents a question for the jury. Only when the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to convince this Court that it was wrong and unjust will the verdict be overturned." (Citations omitted.)”
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.