Benz v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Napoletano v. CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut, Inc. (1996)
67 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 National Transportation Co., Inc. v. Toquet · Corsino v. Grover · Holt v. Wissinger · DeForest & Hotchkiss Co. v. Planning & Zoning Commission · Adams v. Greenwich Water Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons who have an interest in the subject matter of the requested declaratory judgment that is direct, immediate and adverse to the interest of one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants in the action shall be made parties to the action or shall be given reasonable notice thereof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This rule is not merely a procedural regulation. It is in recognition and implementation of the basic principle that due process of law requires that the rights of no man shall be judicially determined without affording him a day in court and an opportunity to be heard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.