Bell v. Evatt’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.3d 421 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Goodwin (1999), Ernest Sutton Bell v. Mack Jarvis Robert Smith (2000)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Boykin v. Alabama · Townsend v. Sain · Berger v. United States
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fell below an objective standard of reasonableness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Supreme Court has recognized that strategies devised after extensively investigating the law and facts relevant to any and all probable options are virtually unchallengeable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“trial judge was merely maintaining order in his courtroom and ensuring a non-disruptive atmosphere”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.