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.

• \The very nature of the inquiry as to a defendant's competency to stand trial demands that a court not be bound strictly by the views of experts.\
• “There is no burden of proof on a capital defendant with regard to evidence of mitigating circumstances. Rather, the jury is to consider the evidence presented and determine whether the mitigating factors exist and, if so, the significance to be accorded them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Larry Gene Bell v. Parker Evatt, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections T. Travis Medlock, Attorney General, State of South Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-12-18· cited 114×
• State v. Shuler
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-04-16· cited 104×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-02-26· cited 81×
• State v. Nance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-01-08· cited 72×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-29· cited 68×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-10-05· cited 64×
• State v. Reed
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-07-27· cited 63×
• State v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-04-27· cited 60×
• Justice v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 54×
• McGahee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 53×
• State v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-01-09· cited 51×
• State v. Gathers
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-06-06· cited 26×
• State v. Reed
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-11-09· cited 25×
• State v. Patterson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-08-14· cited 24×
• State v. Weik
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-09-03· cited 22×
• State v. Colden
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-02-20· cited 19×
• Hall v. Catoe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-08-09· cited 19×
• State v. Blackwell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-05-31· cited 19×
• State v. Elmore
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-08-21· cited 18×
• Quincy Allen v. Michael Stephan
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-07-26· cited 18×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Drope v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 2,695×
• Waller v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-21· cited 2,166×
• Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Riverside Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 1,807×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• State v. Copeland
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-11-10· cited 134×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-09-14· cited 101×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-05-28· cited 91×
• State v. Plath
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-01-17· cited 85×
• State v. Owens
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-07-06· cited 61×
• State v. Gaskins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-01-22· cited 58×
• State v. Smart
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1982-11-23· cited 47×
• State v. Lynn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-12-02· cited 46×
• State v. Patrick
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-06-09· cited 42×
• State v. Livingston
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-05-21· cited 34×
• State v. Adams
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1983-06-29· cited 31×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-11-17· cited 29×