Benton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Vaughan v. State (1894)
43 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘The record is silent in this case, as to this, as to whether the prisoner asked permission to accompany the jury, or was offered the privilege of doing so. “ The record in the case shows that after the order for the view was made, the appellant was again remanded to the custody of the sheriff and. it is probable that he was in prison when the view was made by the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reighard 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.