Benson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Schisler v. State (2006), Rrc v. Baa (2010)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 70 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 Miller Bros. v. Maryland · Davis v. Burke · Department of Natural Resources v. Linchester Sand & Gravel Corp. · Henley v. Prince George's County · White v. Prince George's County
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff confer[red] a benefit upon the defendant; (2) the defendant [knew] or appreciate^] the benefit; and (3) the defendant’s acceptance or retention of the benefit under the circumstances [wa]s such that it would be inequitable to allow the defendant to retain the benefit without the paying of value in return.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"That the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of Government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other; and no person exercising the functions of one of said Departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'which, in equity and good conscience, he ought not to be allowed to retain,'”
3 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.