Benboe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Lepley v. State (1991), Michael v. State (2005)
30 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 McClain v. State · Austin v. State · Juneby v. State · Juneby v. State · Huckaby 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Benboe’s] assault was unplanned and was of extremely brief duration. At most, the assault involved only slight digital penetration. Benboe never threatened [his victim], and he voluntarily terminated the assault as soon as [the victim] protested. Only relatively slight physical injury was caused by Benboe’s conduct, and evidently [the victim] suffered no lasting emotional harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lepley v. State · SB v. State“Had Benboe actually been convicted of the greater offense, he would have been subject to an eight-year presumptive sentence, only one year longer than the seven-year unsuspended portion of the term he ultimately received. However, the eight-year presumptive sentence would have been appropriate only if, by reference to the statutory scheme of aggravating and mitigating factors [ see AS 12.55.155(c) and (d)] it could fairly be said that Benboe's offense was a typical first-degree sexual assault. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. SB v. State“R.E.W. told him no, but Benboe pushed his hand inside her leotard and inserted his finger into her vagina. When R.E.W. said”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. SB 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.