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State v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2014

6 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Mathiason · Beckwith v. United States · State v. Jarrell · State v. Green

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife without her consent, nor a wife for or against her husband without his consent; nor can either during the marriage or afterwards be, without the consent of the other, examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage; but this exception does not apply to a civil action or proceeding by one against the other, nor to a criminal action or proceeding for a crime committed by one against the other, nor for the crime of deserting or neglecting to support a spouse or child, nor where it is otherwise specially provided by law. 2”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Wilson
  2. “A wife shall not be compelled to testify against her husband nor a husband against his wife.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Smith
  3. “police investigation has concentrated upon the individual being questioned”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Fuller

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.