State v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2024
14 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. Llanes · State v. Wood · State v. Patterson · United States Ex Rel. Robert Baskerville v. John T. Deegan, Warden of Auburn State Prison · State v. Undorf
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant was vague and imprecise concerning the conflict and its nature. By his own statement the ‘problem’ had been on his mind a month, yet his counsel said Bentley had never told him about it. “Bentley had shown a propensity for delay by twice forfeiting bonds to appear at a preliminaiy hearing. The trial court knew that a last minute continuance would result in further substantial delay in getting the case to trial.” 218 Kan. at 695 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be provided a fair opportunity to obtain counsel of his or her choice, this right cannot be manipulated to impede the efficient administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Trass
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.