726 So. 2d 286 - Benefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2018
21 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 Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Duren v. Missouri · 678 So. 2d 224 - Ex Parte Land · 698 So. 2d 189 - 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The fact that the appellant did not assert his right to a speedy trial sooner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`[I]n Duren [v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357, 364 , 99 S.Ct. 664, 668-69 , 58 L.Ed.2d 579 (1979) ], the Court stated: "`"In order to establish a prima facie violation of the fair cross-section requirement, the defendant must show (1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a `distinctive' group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this underrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury selection process."'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.