State v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Bryant (1996), State v. Fogarty (1981)
27 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Jackson v. Denno · Kirby v. Illinois · Brewer v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even assuming that defendant requested and was denied an opportunity to speak with his aunt or his mother, there is no evidence that he was being held incommunicado or `confronted with the express threat of continued incommunicado detention and induced by the promise of communication with and access to family.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Contreras v. State“[a] trial justice's ruling on the admissibility of an expert witness's proffered testimony 'will be sustained provided the discretion has been soundly and judicially exercised * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury is free to accept or to reject it, or to accord to the expert's testimony any probative value it deems appropriate.”
1 later decision 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.