Bell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
371 F.2d 35 · 1967
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1981
15 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3052
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Scalza v. United States · United States v. Hall · United States v. Greenberg
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he [defendant] urges that since the agent had what he thought was a valid warrant and purported to act upon it, the Government cannot fall back upon the justification that the agent did not need a warrant at all and that therefore the validity or invalidity of the warrant is irrelevant. The [defendant’s] counsel has not cited any decision to the effect that the invalidity of an arrest warrant nullifies the right ... to arrest without a warrant if the requirements of that [war-rantless arrest] statute are present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thornton
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.