Benson v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Fields v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. (1976), Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. (1985)
6 federal appellate · 18 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 Foster v. Quigley · Ballog v. Knight Newspapers, Inc. · Sunray DX Oil Co. v. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. · M. E. Trapp Associated v. Tankersley · Baldwin v. Collins
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a verdict for damages by reason of personal injuries is accepted by the trial court, the court in rendering judgment shall add interest on said verdict ... from the date the suit was commenced to date of verdict.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not of the substance of the right of action,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“then it becomes a mode of procedure which the court was bound to follow.”
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.