Benchwick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
297 F.2d 330 · 1961
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), 534 So. 2d 393 - State v. Pennington (1988)
97 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Agnew v. United States · Ex Parte Barber · Evans v. United States · Anderson v. Alabama
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The repeated drawing and payment of checks over an extended period in amounts grossly in excess of the defendant's balance was itself a relevant circumstance bearing upon defendant's knowledge and intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This may sometimes present the defendant with a hard choice, but that is true in many situations which may confront litigants in the course of almost every trial, and provides no basis for exempting the defendant from the provisions of the rule [Rule 23(c), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A.].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific intent, like any other fact, may be inferred from all the relevant circumstances ....”
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.