152 Ohio App. 3d 495 - State v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Geeslin (2007), 154 Ohio App. 3d 133 - State v. Ritze (2003)
59 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 California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Zoppo v. Homestead Insurance · State v. Jackson · 70 Ohio App. 3d 624 - State v. Lewis
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It imports a dishonest purpose, moral obliquity, conscious wrongdoing, breach of a known duty through some ulterior motive or ill will partaking of the nature of fraud. It also embraces actual intent to mislead or deceive another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the evidence possesses an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed, and (2) is of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonable means.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here, it is at least questionable, and probably quite likely, that the prosecution did not act in good faith. It is uncontroverted that the state failed to preserve the evidence despite defendant’s specific request. Moreover, defendant’s request was never answered. * * * We find that fundamental fairness, implicit in the federal guarantee of due process, requires, at a minimum, that the state respond to defense requests to preserve evidence. * * * [T]he state is under a constitutional duty to respond in good faith to a defense request to preserve evidence.””
1 later decision 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.