Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2020
12 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 202 Ga. App. 195 - Hunter v. State · Burnett v. State · Young v. State · Green v. State · Larry v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In criminal cases the privilege of polling a jury is the legal right of the defendant, and does not depend upon the discretion of the court.” [Cit.] The purpose of the rule is to insure that each member of the jury assents to the verdict, and for the court to discern possible coercion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen 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.