Benson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 576 · 1968
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably United States v. Marion (1971), United States v. Sklaroff (1971)
63 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 United States v. Ewell · Bridges v. Wixon · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Ross v. United States · Western Natural Gas Co. v. Cities Service Gas Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f there are special circumstances amounting to a denial of due process, that make a particular case an exception to this rule, the defendant should promptly bring the claim to the trial court’s attention. If he fails to do so, the claim is no longer open to him, and cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.” 402 F.2d at 580 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f there is unnecessary delay in presenting the charge to a grand jury or in filing an information against a defendant who has been held to answer to the district court, or if there is unnecessary delay in bringing a defendant to trial, the court may dismiss the indictment, information or complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.