Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Moran v. E.k. McDaniel (1996)
2 federal appellate · 24 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.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · 10 Cal. 3d 216 - Gyler v. Mission Insurance · Hargrove 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he death penalty is only a sentencing option if, after balancing and evaluating the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the former are found to outweigh the latter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]ithout expressly addressing the remaining procedural bases for the dismissal of Bennett's petition, we therefore choose to reach the merits of Bennett's contentions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dist. Ct.“still ha[ve] the discretion to return a penalty other than death”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.