Commonwealth v. Vann Bell’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
4 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · United States v. Oviedo · Commonwealth v. Peaslee · Commonwealth v. Kennedy
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.
“If sheer volume of literature be the measure of fascination, then few subjects have been as intriguing for criminal law scholars as the nexus between the doctrine of impossibility and the crime of attempt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“deserving of conviction and is just as much in need of restraint and corrective treatment as the defendant who did not meet with the unanticipated events which barred successful completion of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.