Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2012
23 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Cage v. Louisiana · Case v. State · Gee v. State · Grassmyer v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A 'reasonable doubt' is a fair, actual and logical doubt that arises in your mind after an impartial consideration of all of the evidence and cireumstances in the case. It should be doubt based upon reason and common sense and not a doubt based upon imagination or speculation. "If, after considering all of the evidence, you have reached a firm belief in the guilt of the Defendant that you feel safe to act upon that belief, without hesitation, in a matter of the highest concern and importance to you, then you will have reached that degree of certainty which excludes reasonable doubt and authorizes conviction. "The rule of law which requires proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt applies to each juror individually. Each of you must refuse to vote for conviction unless you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of the Defendant's guilt. Your verdict must be unanimous."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the State presents evidence which “strongly suggests” the exact whereabouts of the evidence at all times, that is sufficient. The defendant can challenge the adequacy of the foundation but he must present evidence which does more than raise a mere possibility that the evidence could have been tampered with. Any gaps in the chain of custody would go to the weight of the evidence and not to the admissibility of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cliver v. State“A 'reasonable doubt' is a fair, actual and logical doubt that arises in your mind after an impartial consideration of all of the evidence and cireumstances in the case. It should be doubt based upon reason and common sense and not a doubt based upon imagination or speculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winegeart 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.