Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Atwell v. State (1991), 423 So. 2d 1382 - Hinds v. State (1982)
42 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 Parker v. State · Reeves v. State · Knight v. State · 41 Ala. App. 507 - Boyd v. State · Eggleston 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Any officer, . . . of any incorporated company, . . . who embezzles or fraudulently converts to his own use or the use of another, or fraudulently secretes with intent to convert to his own use or the use of another, any money or property which has come into his possession by virtue of his office, agency, employment . . . shall be punished, on conviction, as if he had stolen it."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]o rule is more fundamental or better settled than that convictions cannot be predicated upon surmise, speculation, and suspicion to establish the accused's criminal agency in the offense charged.”
5 later decisions 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.