Benning v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Williams (2000), Levy v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities (1996)
46 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. Harriss · Hicks v. Miranda · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · Mandel v. Bradley
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That all men are born equally free and independent, arid have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shields v. Gerhart“had the opportunity to clarify their responsibilities and did not use it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SM
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.