State v. Benn’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
October 1972
most recently cited
2 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Killian · State v. Valenzuela · State v. Cuzick · State v. Logan · State v. Caldera
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court has wide discretion to sentence a defendant to a period between the statutory minimum and the statutory maximum and a sentence in conformity with the statute will be upheld unless there is clear evidence that the trial court has abused that discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Raybould““* * * inquiry must be made into the circumstances of the offense charged and the moral character and past conduct of the defendant, as appears from the record of the case. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boag
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.