Bell Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Williams v. Murdoch (1964), Commonwealth v. Ashenfelder (1964)
3 federal appellate · 148 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 Kaufman Construction Co. v. Holcomb · Grime v. Department of Public Instruction · Delaware County National Bank v. Campbell · Patterson's Estate · Schmuck v. Hartman
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appealable directly to the Supreme Court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.