Bennett v. Shumate’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Abney v. United States · United States v. Dinitz · United States v. Josef Perez · United States v. Sanford · Walden Denn v. Craig
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law has invested Courts of justice with the authority to discharge a jury from giving any verdict, whenever, in their opinion, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the act, or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Koehler v. State · Dollar 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.