Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Hester v. State (1974), State v. Lamb (1972)
1 federal appellate · 42 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . enjoy the right to ... a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county or district wherein the offense shall have been committed; . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is evident that sec. 5 . . . was intended to secure the right of trial by jury in civil and not in criminal actions. The words in the section, "and shall extend to all cases at law, without regard to the amount in controversy," clearly limit the provisions of that section to civil actions at law, and exclude the idea that it was intended to apply to criminal actions. The provision in said section that "a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all cases, in the manner prescribed by law," confirms this construction of the section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . this section secures to the accused in all criminal prosecutions a right of trial by jury, ... the jury mentioned in said section means a jury of twelve impartial men, — such a jury as was known to the common law and to the courts of the territory of Wisconsin before the state was organized.” 1”
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.