Bennett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · M. A. P. v. Ryan · Gearhart v. United States · Boyer v. Bealor · Gooding 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [trial] Court should not attempt to decide the merits of the proffered defense, thus determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant.” 106 U.S.App. D.C. 270, 273, 272 F.2d 499, 502 (1959). But see Bennett, 726 A.2d at 168 (noting that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.