Benson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2008
16 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 Bennett v. State · Phillips v. State · Bowen v. State · White v. State · Nichols v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is also argued that the boys riding the bicycle were guilty of negligence which contributed to the injury and death of [one of them]. The doctrine of contributory negligence recognized in civil actions is inapplicable here. In 5 Am. Jur., Automobiles, § 796, it is said: “The familiar rule that contributory negligence of the person injured or killed by the negligence of the defendant in the operation of an automobile bars a recovery in a civil action has no application to a prosecution for homicide due to criminal negligence in operating an automobile. In such case, the decedent’s behavior may have a material bearing upon the question of the defendant’s guilt, but if the culpable negligence of the latter is found to be the cause of the death, he is criminally responsible whether the decedent’s failure to use due care contributed to the injury or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Courtney 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.