Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2013
13 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 Juneby v. State · Houston v. State · Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage · Nelson v. State · LaLonde 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant was coerced to [engage in criminal conduct] by the use of unlawful foree upon the defendant or a third person, which force a reasonable person in the defendant's situa tion would have been unable to resist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“(e) If a factor in aggravation is a necessary element of the present offense, ... that factor may not be used to aggravate the presumptive term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burks v. State“insufficient to constitute a complete defense, but which significantly affected [the defendant's] conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.