Benson v. Hefley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
September 1969
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wiggins v. Sterne · Peterson v. Sapp
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the issue of sudden emergency is pleaded and there is sufficient evidence to justify jury to make a finding on same, it is not reversible error for trial court to instruct on such issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. Hoster
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.