475 So. 2d 601 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990)
32 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with one of the victims inadmissible evidence of the good character of that victim. Rule 404(a) and (b), Ala.R.Evid. [8] Taylor has failed to demonstrate any possible prejudice caused him by the trial judge's voir dire procedure. C. Taylor argues that the trial court erred when it denied his pretrial motion to disqualify”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“independently weighed the aggravating and mitigating circumstances of this case and . . . agree[d] with the decision of the trial court that death is the proper sentence in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“previously convicted of . . . a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte McWilliams
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.