Commonwealth v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2024
1 district · 11 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 · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Commonwealth v. Sneed · Commonwealth v. McGrogan · Commonwealth v. Peterkin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commonwealth, without the only eyewitness to the events leading up to and including [the] murder, would be hampered in its ability to rebut a theory untested at the original trial. [The defendant’s] suggestion that the Commonwealth admit prior recorded testimony neither addresses nor refutes the PCRA’s finding of prejudice. As the Commonwealth aptly notes, the PCRA was not designed to afford a defendant an opportunity to present a new defense unanswerable due to the passage of time.”
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.