Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2009
13 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 Chimel v. California · Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Harris v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]n officer may seize evidence of a crime even though such property is not particularly described in the search warrant when the objects discovered and seized are reasonably related to the offense in question, when the searching officer at the time of the seizure has a reasonable basis for drawing a connection between the observed objects and the crime which furnished the basis for the search warrant, and the discovery of such property is made in the course of a good faith search conducted within the authorized perimeters of the search warrant." Bell v. State , Alaska, 482 P.2d 854 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses and other property, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. No warrants shall issue, bu,t upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. State““ * * * it is permissible to seize things other than those described in the search warrant if they have reasonable relation to the purpose of the search.” 3 Wright’s Fed.Prac. and Proc. 100”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valerio v. State
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.