United States v. Benavides’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 137 · 1979
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Dayton (1979), Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982)
37 federal appellate · 15 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Ohio v. Gallagher · Taylor v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has `only a narrow discretion' in deciding whether to proceed with a trial when the defendant is voluntarily in absentia because the right to be present at one's own trial must be carefully safeguarded.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The further progress of the trial to and including the return of the verdict shall not be prevented and the defendant shall be considered to have waived his right to be present whenever a defendant, initially present, (1) voluntarily absents himself after the trial has commenced (whether or not he has been informed by the court of his obligation to remain during the trial)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not turn on whether subsequent events prove or disprove”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.