Benton v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Elliott v. Hurst · Stacks v. Jones · Majewski v. Cantrell · Hall v. Grimmett · Yeager v. Roberts
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contrary to the preponderance of the evidence.”
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.