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← 353 S.C. 441 - State v. Benjamin

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.

  1. “. . . committed at times so closely connected in point of time that they may be considered as one offense. . . .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[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 dissent
  3. “[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law ...,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.