State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2011
6 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 Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Mathews v. Lucas · 127 Ill. 2d 174 - People v. Lindner · Lunday Ex Rel. Lunday v. Vogelmann · Rushworth v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he classification must be . sustained unless it is patently arbitrary and bears no rational relationship to a legitimate governmental interest. It does not deny equal protection simply because in practice it results in some inequality; practical problems of government permit rough accommodations; and the classification will be upheld if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived to justify it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There are a number of possible state interests that the statute advances. The legislature may have concluded that individuals convicted of drug offenses are more likely to cause dangerous conditions on public roads than are other criminal defendants because their drug use actually may impair their driving abilities. Moreover, the legislature may have believed that the statute would cut down on the transportation and trafficking of drugs, and, therefore, the use of drugs....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Daniel“In addition to any sentence imposed pursuant to chapter 902 [general sentencing chapter for felonies] or 903 [general sentencing chapter for misdemeanors], the court shall order the state department of transportation to revoke the defendant’s driver’s license ... for a period of one hundred eighty days ... if the defendant is being sentenced for any of the following offenses: a. A controlled substance offense under section 124.401_”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Daniel
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.