Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably Brady v. State of Maryland (1963), State v. Little (1960)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An acquittal of a party does not ascertain or determine any precise facts. It may have resulted from an insufficiency of evidence as to some particular fact, where several facts are necessary ingredients of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Coblentz
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.