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← 963 SO2D 1124 - Bell v. State

Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · County of Riverside v. McLaughlin · McClain v. State · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “so considered [was] such that reasonable and fair-minded jurors could only find the accused not guilty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “where such discretion has been abused and a substantial right of a party has been affected.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he admissibility of evidence rests within the trial court's discretion.”
    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.