102 Ohio App. 14 - State v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1979
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. Whoever with malicious intent to maim, or disfigure, or mutilate, shall out out or maim the tongue., put out or destroy an eye, cut or tear off an ear, out or slit or mutilate the nose or lip, or destroy or disable any limb, member or bodily organ of another, shall be punished * * *. “4. Whoever shall assault another, with intent to murder, or to maim or disfigure his person in any of the ways mentioned in the preceding section, shall be judged guilty of assault in the first degree, and shall be punished * * (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sorenson
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.