Benson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Webb v. Commonwealth (1963), Moore v. Commonwealth (1977)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove · Pine v. Commonwealth · Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance v. Baum · Jones v. Commonwealth
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where . . . the testimony of the witness relates to a conversation between him and another particular individual, it is the general rule that in order to be admissible in evidence the identity of the person with whom the witness claims to have been speaking must be satisfactorily established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] statement of his identity by the party called, standing alone, is not generally regarded as sufficient proof of such identity unless it is corroborated by other circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had no right, either statutory or constitutional, to be afforded a preliminary hearing prior to the finding of the indictment or to his trial thereon.”
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.