Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2016
16 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Allen v. United States · State v. Chaney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is apparent that the legislature considered procurement of a person under sixteen to be an aggravated form of promoting prostitution. The commentary to [the draft version of this statute] states that ... creation of strict liability was intended as to the element of the offense involving [the] age of the victim. [[Image here]] We ... liability on this element of the offense] is in accord with the common law view that there should be no exculpation for mistake note that [imposition of strict where, if the facts had been as the actor believed them to be, [the actor's] conduct would still be illegal or immoral. As Bell recognizes on appeal, his conduct would still have been illegal even if [the girl] had been sixteen or over. [[Image here]] Under [the statute], it is Bell's intentional procurement of a person ... for prostitution that renders him liable for first-degree promoting, regardless of his actual awareness of that person's age. The act of procuring another for prostitution is ma-lum in se, without regard to the age of the person procured, and thus ... in a prose-ecution for procuring a person under the age of sixteen years, the [defendant's] intent to procure satisfies the ... constitutional requirement of criminal intent. [8]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knutsen v. State
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