Bentacur v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 1997
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Garcia v. State · Bridges v. State · Moring v. State · Stewart v. State · Smith v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'intend[ed] to cause serious bodily injury and commit[ed] an act clearly dangerous to human life that cause[d] the death of an individual.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. State · Goodwin v. Johnson“intentionally or knowingly caus[ing] the death of an individual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. State · Goodwin v. Johnson
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.