State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), State v. Garner (1995)
49 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 Gault · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Jackson · Haley v. Ohio · State v. Bayless
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A) Sections of the Revised Code defining offense or penalties shall be strictly construed against the state, and liberally construed in favor of the accused.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Regardless of whether one or more of the aggravating circumstances listed in division (A) of this section is specified in the indictment and proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the death penalty for aggravated murder is precluded when, considering the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history, character, and condition of the offender, one or more of the * * # [three statutory mitigating circumstances] is established by a * * * [preponderance] of the evidence.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Osborne“(1) The victim of the offense induced or facilitated it. 69 "(2) It is unlikely that the offense would have been committed, but for the fact that the offender was under duress, coercion, or strong provocation. 70 "(3) The offense was primarily the product of the offender's psychosis or mental deficiency, though such condition is insufficient to establish the defense of insanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockett v. Ohio
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.