State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 1986 · most notably State v. Bindyke (1975), State v. Adcock (1983)
49 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 State v. Birchfield · State v. . Lea · State v. . Weinstein · State v. . Murray · State v. . Hicks
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the State's case was based for the most part on direct evidence sufficient in itself to warrant conviction, the trial judge did not err in failing to give the jury specific instructions on circumstantial evidence. The defendant did not request any such instructions at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adcock“[t]he distinction between principals and accessories is made only in felonies. All persons who participate in treason or in misdemeanors, whether present or absent, are indictable and punishable as principals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bindyke
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.