The People v. . Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably Curley v. United States (1947), Goodwin v. State (1883)
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corpus delicti has two components, viz.: death as the result, and the criminal agency of another as the means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cobianchi v. People
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.