In Re Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. Douglas (1944), Courtney v. Courtney (1938)
31 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 Monroe v. Hartford Street Railway Co. · Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. v. Corporation Commission · Blevins v. W. A. Graham Co. · De Hasque v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. · Colton v. Board of Trustees
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Provided, further, that should death result from any injury or sickness, sustained by any such person while in, and in consequence of, the performance of his duty as an employee of such regularly constituted fire department, a monthly pension equal to one-half (%) the amount of the salary attached to the rank which he may have held in such fire department shall be paid to his widow. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Mandamus is proper to compel the performance by the Board of Trustees of the firemen’s relief and pension fund of its duty to issue vouchers for the full amount of the pension to which the board had theretofore determined the plaintiff to be entitled, when sufficient unencumbered money is in the fund with which to pay such pension.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephenson v. Dudley““The purpose of laws for firemen’s pensions is beneficial, and such statutes should be liberally construed in favor of those to be benefited.””
1 later decision 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.