726 So. 2d 93 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2014
7 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 Collins v. Youngblood · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Logarusic v. United States · 360 So. 2d 1206 - Bell v. State · Bell v. Watkins
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) Does the act punish as a crime an act previously committed, which was innocent when done; 2) Does the act make more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission; or 3) Does the act deprive one charged with crime of any defense available at the time when the act was committed?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“creates a new offense or changes the punishment, to the detriment of the accused, after the commission of a 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.