State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2015
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Solem v. Helm · Gardner v. Florida · Medlin v. Mann · Stover v. Rau
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5)(a) If a statute under which the defendant was convicted mandates that one of three stated minimum terms shall be imposed, the court shall order imposition of the term of middle severity unless there are circumstances in aggravation or mitigation of the crime. [[Image here]] (d) The court shall set forth on the record the facts supporting and reasons for imposing the upper or lower term. (e) The court in determining a just sentence shall be guided by sentencing rules regarding aggravation and mitigation promulgated by the Judicial Council. (6).... (b) The court shall state the reasons for its sentence choice on the record at the time of sentencing. The court shall also inform the defendant as part of the sentence that if the defendant is released from prison, he may be on parole for a period of ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbons“Although § 76-3-201(5)(d) requires that the trial court specify “the facts supporting and reasons for imposing the upper and lower term,” § 76-3-201(6)(b) requires that the court need only state the reasons for any sentence choice, including the middle term sentence, if there are no circumstances in aggravation or mitigation of the crime. However, when there are aggravating and mitigating circumstances, as there were in this case, the trial court must identify them and give them appropriate weight in pronouncing sentence, even if the sentence is the middle term. The mitigating and aggravating circumstances and the trial court’s reasons supporting the sentence should appear on the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbons
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.