Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2004
14 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 Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Manasco · Ex Parte Thaggard · 41 Ala. App. 181 - White v. City of Birmingham · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · City of Gadsden v. Elrod
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have said that on certiorari to the Court of Appeals, this court will consider only questions which are treated in the opinion of that court which are challenged in the petition for the writ of certiorari and which are argued in brief filed in support of the petition. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. v. Manasco, 271 Ala. 124 , 123 So.2d 527 [(1960)]; Harris v. State, 272 Ala. 146 , 130 So.2d 231 [(1961)]; Ex parte Thaggard, 276 Ala. 117 , 159 So.2d 820 [(1964)]; City of Gadsden v. Elrod, 250 Ala. 148 , 33 So.2d 270 [(1948)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.