State v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably State v. Hetland (1979), State v. Soukharith (1997)
43 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 United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · Commonwealth v. Swanger · 13 Cal. 3d 663 - People v. Cook · United States v. Mallides
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the radio message standing alone does not furnish legal cause for the detention .... If this case rested solely upon the foundation of the radio message to Officer Hogue with no evidence or proof that a factual foundation for the message existed, the legality of the detention here could not be supported.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davis“`[a] reasonably founded suspicion to stop a vehicle cannot be based solely on the receipt by the stopping officer of a radio dispatch to stop the described vehicle without any proof of the factual foundation for the relayed message.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wollam
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.