725 So. 2d 836 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)
106 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 Batson v. Kentucky · United States v. Young · Swain v. State of Alabama · Stirone v. United States · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive amendment of the indictment occurs when the proof and instructions broaden the grounds upon which the defendant may be found guilty of the offense charged so that the defendant may be convicted without proof of the elements alleged by the grand jury in its indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecutor may comment upon any facts introduced into evidence, and he may draw whatever deductions and inferences that seem proper to him from the facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]ot all variances between the indictment and instructions constitute a constructive amendment, nor do they rise to plain error.”
3 later decisions 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.