Bell v. Arn’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 123 · 1976
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Walker v. Engle (1983), Buell v. Mitchell (2001)
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Kirby v. Illinois · Mattox v. United States · United States v. Ash · Anderson v. Alabama · Michigan National Bank v. Michigan
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... may not be questioned in a federal habeas corpus proceeding, unless they render the trial so fundamentally unfair as to constitute a denial of federal rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spalla v. Foltz · Logan v. Marshall
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.