526 So. 2d 948 - Benson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2014
10 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Schmerber v. State of California · Holland v. United States · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Hayes v. Florida
Most-quoted passages
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“single inferences, though weak when taken individually, may be substantial and powerful when added together.... [T]he probative strength of an underlying inference is a factor that affects the strength of the final factum probandum, but ... no mechanical rule can be laid down concerning how strong any underlying inference must be. The question is not whether any given inference in a chain is too weak but is always whether, in view of all patterns of corroborating and contradicting evidence at all levels of all inferential chains, the final factum probandum has been shown to the degree of likelihood required by the applicable standard of persuasion....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an inference may be admissible into evidence, even though it is based upon another inference, if the other inference has been shown to exist beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when no contrary reasonable inference may be indulged, such inference is elevated for the purpose of further inference to the dignity of an established fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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