Benham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1951 · most notably Parks v. State (1902), Wertheimer & Goldberg v. State (1929)
28 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 Eastman v. State · Graeter v. State · State v. Miller · Trout v. State · Trout 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The offense charged against appellant herein is purely a statutory offense — -that is, it was created and defined and its punishment prescribed by the provisions heretofore quoted of the above entitled act of April 11th, 1885. In such a case, it has been held by this court, as a general rule, that an indictment or information will be sufficient to withstand a motion to quash, if it charge the offense in the language of the statute, or in terms substantially equivalent thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams““. . . be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in this state without first obtaining a license so to do. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacDonald v. State
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.