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← 434 P2D 200 - Benson v. Hefley

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.

  1. ““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 majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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