Benson v. Gladden’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2019
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Peek v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ost-conviction relief pursuant to [the 1959 act] shall be granted by the court when one or more of the following grounds is established by the petitioner”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. State“relief [that] would have been available prior to May 26, 1959, under the writ of habeas corpus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. State“[a] substantial denial in the proceedings * resulting in petitioner's conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez 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.