State v. Benbow’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Stokes (1987), State v. Murray (1984)
54 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 State v. Ahearn · State v. Jones · State v. Blackwelder · State v. Thompson · In Matter of Rogers
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e emphasize that a defendant’s liability for a crime, including whether he was the principal offender or an accessory, is determined at the guilt phase of a trial or, as in the case sub judice, by a plea. At sentencing the focus must be on the offender’s individual culpability. It is therefore proper at sentencing to consider the defendant’s actual role in the offense as opposed to his legal liability for the acts of others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lingered and remained in a semiconscious state for over twelve hours,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokes“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokes
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.