Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2019
19 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 McDuffie v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party should not be allowed to exclude his own statement on the grounds that what he said was untrustworthy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Shavers v. State“If the out-of-court statement is relevant only if the trier of fact believes that the statement was both truthful and accurate, then the statement is hearsay. If the relevancy of the statement does not hinge on the truthfulness of the statement, it is not hearsay.”). . Appellant's objection would have merit if Mr. Merillat had testified,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coble v. State“(e) Statements which are not hearsay. A statement is not hearsay if: [[Image here]] (2) Admission by 'party-opponent. The statement is offered against a party and is (A) his own statement in either his individual or representative capacity....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shavers v. State
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.