State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004
4 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 Payton v. New York · Drew v. United States · Baker v. United States · United States v. Reed · People v. Barker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the offense for which defendant was sought was certainly not trivial, in view of the substantial period of time that elapsed between the date of the offense [July 19, 1976] and the date of the arrest [October 20, 1976], it can hardly be said that the charge of distributing a controlled substance was a grave offense in the sense that immediate action was necessary to apprehend the perpetrator.”
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.