Benitez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sneed v. State · Rose v. State · Casares v. State · Spelling v. State · Shaw 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a misstatement of the law, (2) asserted as a fact, (3) by one professing to know the law, (4) which is relied upon by other jurors, (5) who for that reason changed their vote to a harsher punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cuellar v. State · Dawkins v. State“(8) Where the court finds the jury has engaged in such misconduct that the accused has not received a fair and impartial trial....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin 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.