90 So. 2d 704 - Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 642 So. 2d 730 - Armstrong v. State (1994), 497 So. 2d 863 - Johnston v. State (1986)
31 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 Henderson 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, recanting testimony is exceedingly unreliable, and it is the duty of the court to deny a new trial where it is not satisfied that such testimony is true. Especially is this true where the recantation involves a confession of perjury.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial judge's skepticism as to the truth of the matter contained in the affidavit is understandable.”
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.