State v. Bell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in criminal cases, fairness dictates that statutes should be literally and strictly construed; courts should refrain from using possible but strained interpretations
• in criminal cases, fairness dictates that statutes should be literally and strictly construed; courts should refrain from using possible but strained interpretations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-10-02· cited 277×
• State v. Garcia
  Washington Supreme Court· 2014-02-13· cited 104×
• State v. Hornaday
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-01-16· cited 96×
• City of Seattle v. Buchanan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-09-28· cited 60×
• State v. Roden
  Washington Supreme Court· 2014-02-27· cited 49×
• In Re Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 48×
• In re the Personal Restraint of Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 48×
• State v. Bird
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 42×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-08-16· cited 38×
• Hedlund v. White
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-09-09· cited 30×
• In Re the Adoption of Jackson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-04-20· cited 23×
• State v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-03-19· cited 20×
• State v. Montague
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1974-04-09· cited 15×
• City of Seattle v. Marshall
  Washington Supreme Court· 1974-04-25· cited 15×
• State v. Snook
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1977-08-09· cited 11×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-04-29· cited 9×
• State v. DuPont
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-07-28· cited 8×
• Prime Construction Co. v. Seattle-First National Bank
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1977-01-03· cited 4×
• State v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1980-10-27· cited 3×
• State v. Gilbert
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-01-20· cited 2×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Goebel
  Washington Supreme Court· 1952-01-24· cited 128×
• State v. Rinkes
  Washington Supreme Court· 1957-01-14· cited 53×
• Beach v. Board of Adjustment
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-03-14· cited 31×
• State v. Harvey
  Washington Supreme Court· 1960-11-09· cited 15×
• State v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1973-04-09· cited 12×
• State v. Brooks
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-04-25· cited 9×
• State v. Stringer
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1971-03-15· cited 7×
• State v. Hannigan
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1970-10-30· cited 6×