State v. Benfield’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Jerskey v. State (1976), State v. Reed (1979)
30 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 State v. Degraffenreid · State v. Cobb · State v. Denison · State v. Stuart · State v. Dowling
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q In the process of this investigation did anyone advise [defendant] of his constitutional rights? A Yes, I did. Q Did he make any statements? A No. Q At that time? A No, he did not. Q Did he make any statements to your knowledge at any other time? A No.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green · State v. Mabie““In State v. Stuart, 456 S.W.2d 19 (Mo. banc 1970), the following language appears at page 22: “ ‘The law is established in this state that the silence of an accused while under arrest is not admissible against him because he is under no duty to speak . . . We now hold that an accused’s failure to volunteer an exculpatory statement is -not admissible as an admission; that it may not be shown that by his silence he failed to deny or explain while under arrest an incriminating fact as to which no question was asked. See: 22A C.J.S. Criminal Law § 734(1) a, p. 1072. The admission of such evidence constitutes an invasion of an accused’s constitutional rights. State v. Battles, supra, 357 Mo. 1223 , 212 S.W.2d 753 at 757 [9].’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jerskey v. State · State v. Pogue
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.