Benoit v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 644 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 652 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably McGalliard v. Kuhlmann (1986), Santellan v. State (1997)
6 federal appellate · 644 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 Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Nardis Sportswear v. Simmons · City of Houston v. Quinones · Lockley v. Page · London Terrace, Inc. v. McAlister
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 652 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he jury is the exclusive judge of the facts proved, the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Requested Special Issue No. 22. “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that any two or more of the acts of omission or commission inquired about in the two or more Special Issues Nos. 15, 18, 22, 25, 28 and 31, so answered by you in the affirmative, if you have so answered, acting together and concurring, were not the sole proximate cause of the collision involved herein? Answer ‘They were not the sole proximate cause,’ or ‘They were the sole proximate cause.’ “We, the jury, answer:-””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of intoxication is an evidentiary fact to be considered by the jury, or trier of the facts, in determining whether or not a person is guilty of some act of contributory negligence ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.