State v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Berkebile v. Outen · State v. Burdette · State v. Tucker · Staubes v. City of Folly Beach · Paschal v. State Election Commission
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such circumstances, [the appellate c]ourt simply lacks the authority to look for or impose another meaning and may not resort to subtle or forced construction in an attempt to limit or expand a statute's scope.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law ... upon a conviction for a most serious offense ..., a person must be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole if that person has one or more prior convictions for ... (certain specified offenses).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Benjamin
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.