State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Bennett v. State (1965), 1 Md. App. 406 - Culver v. State (1967)
3 federal appellate · 26 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. McKrackern · State v. Witham · State v. Allen · State v. Williams · State v. Field
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 board and its blood stain stood in a milieu of connected circumstances. * * * The prosecutrix had ■related that the board had constituted part of the plane surface upon which the crime had been enacted and had sworn that her blood had stained the board’s top side. The relation óf the board to the trial issue had become by an aggregation of circumstances qualified for jury consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dameg““But real and spoken evidence and their advantage in observing the principals and witnesses completely vindicate the jurors in their verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett 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.