Bell v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
3 federal appellate · 18 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 State v. Langley · Salt Creek Transp. Co. v. Public Service Commission · Trent v. Union Pacific Coal Company · Miller v. Board of the County Commissioners · McFarland v. City of Cheyenne
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts * * * have proceeded upon the assumption that members of the legislature will investigate and determine for themselves whether or not a proposed law will violate the constitution, and accordingly, have adopted the rule that no law will be declared unconstitutional unless it is clearly so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoem v. State“a law void in part is not necessarily void as a whole and whether a legislative act should be declared unconstitutional as a whole when a portion thereof is invalid depends primarily upon the intention of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Hansen
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.