State v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1994
10 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 City of Miami Beach v. Berns · State v. Benson
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.
“"The period of limitation established by Article 578 shall be interrupted if: "k ‡ “(2) The defendant cannot be tried because of insanity or because his presence for trial cannot be obtained by legal process, or for any other causa beyond the control of the state. "The periods of limitation established by Article 578 shall commence to run anew from the date the cause of intcrruption no longer exists.” (Emphasis ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cranmer · State v. Hudson“the running of the periods of limitation ... shall be suspended until the ruling of the court thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.