State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stallworth (2001), State v. Taylor (2009)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Shepard v. United States · State v. Stepney · State v. Sharpe · 1993-1 v. Federal Trade Commission · Cook v. Hoppin
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the hearsay declarations of mental condition are especially relevant - particularly where the defendant has put the decedent's mental state at issue by claiming accident, self-defense or suicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statements of a declarant's present mental condition made out of court are excepted from the hearsay ban”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Copple“in limited situations when they are relevant and the relevancy outweighs their prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Copple
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.