State v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Burdette · State v. Blackmon · Ray Bell Construction Co. v. School District · Higgins v. State · State v. Stewart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . committed at times so closely connected in point of time that they may be considered as one offense. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Woody“[t]he purpose of requiring separate offenses is to ensure that those offenders being sentenced under the harsh provisions of a recidivist sentencing statute have not been classified as habitual offenders because of multiple convictions arising from a single criminal enterprise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Gordon · Bryant v. State“[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law ...,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Woody
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.