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Benson v. Terhune’s Empirical Analysis

304 F.3d 874 · 2002

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
October 2019
most recently cited

10 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady v. United States · Mincey v. Arizona · Moran v. Burbine

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A prisoner’s right to refuse treatment is useless without knowledge of the proposed treatment. Prisoners have a right to such information as is reasonably necessary to make an informed decision to accept or reject proposed treatment, as well as a reasonable explanation of the viable alternative treatments that can be made available in a prison setting.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “reasonable application of Supreme Court precedent”
    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.