369 So. 2d 932 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
23 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 Sherman v. United States · Oyler v. Boles · Joseph Moss v. Albert H. Hornig · Hand v. State · 255 So. 2d 675 - Chesebrough 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere failure to prosecute all offenders is no ground for a claim of denial of equal protection.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotton · Grant v. State“The basis of the entrapment defense is that the conduct of the entrapped innocent defendant lies outside the intent of the criminal proscription. Sherman v. United States, 356 U.S. 369, 372 , 78 S.Ct. 819, 821 , 2 L.Ed.2d 848, 851 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“against multiple punishments for a single criminal offense”
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.