State v. Benoit’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1955
20 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 State v. Ford · State v. Boudreaux · State v. Bellard · State v. Riggio · 52 La. Ann. 616 - State v. Robinson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The uniform jurisprudence in this state is to the effect that evidence of previous threats or of the dangerous character of the deceased, on the trial of a prosecution for murder, is not admissible until an overt act or a hostile demonstration has been proven to the satisfaction of the trial judge. See State v. Boudreaux, 137 La. 227 , 68 South. 422 , and authorities therein cited [also State v. Varnado, 131 La. 951 , 60 South. 627 ], But it is now also recognized that such conclusion of fact by the trial judge, when he decides that no overt act has been proven, is not final and is subject to review on appeal. See State v Clark, 142 La. 283 , 76 South. 714 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poole
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.