Benson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Grabill v. State (1980), Barnette v. Doyle (1981)
32 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 Brewer v. United States · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Williamson Et Al. v. United States · Terminal Freight Handling Co. v. Solien · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are further instructed that in order to find the defendant guilty of grand larceny, you must first determine that at the time he took and carried away the property belonging to another, he intended to steal the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Repkie v. State“In order to meet the basic requirements of due process, it was necessary for the court in Blakely's trial to instruct on defendant's theory of the case * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Scheikofsky v. State“[T]he defendant had a right to have his main defense in the case affirmatively presented to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stagner v. State
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.