Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Dykes v. State (1990), Sims v. State (1990)
68 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 Thompson v. United States · Bruce v. State · Gunther v. State · State Ex Rel. Bowman v. Wooleyhan Transport Co. · Ritterpusch v. Lithographic Plate Service, Inc.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t appears that the trial court ... not only believed but subsequently recognized that the defendant had made an effective objection.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State · Watts v. State““The purpose of Maryland Rule 756 f — which requires that objections to instructions shall be made before the jury retires to consider its verdict — is to give the trial court an opportunity to amplify or amend its charge if it deems amplification or amendment necessary.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the decision in Gunther ..., the right of a defendant to arm himself in anticipation of an assault can no longer be questioned where the circumstances are such as could induce a jury to believe that the defendant was not the aggressor, but was instead apprehensive that he might be attacked by the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rajnic 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.