Bell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 713 · 1975
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Warner (1982), Strader v. Garrison (1979)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · McCarthy v. United States · Bozza v. United States · Cuthrell v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Pilkington 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deny him the eligibility for parole that he could reasonably expect and the actual parole that he could reasonably think was within his power to earn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is, however, harmless error when the sentence imposed on the defendant and the special parole term do not together exceed the maximum sentence specified at arraignment. 521 F.2d at 714 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when, as here, the combination is less than the maximum of which the prisoner had been advised, we perceive no warrant to conclude that he was misled. 521 F.2d at 715.”
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.