Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2007
22 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Keeton v. State · Crocker v. State · Carrillo v. State · McKay 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412 , 105 S.Ct. 844 , 83 L.Ed.2d 841 (1985), the Unit ed States Supreme Court held that in order for a juror to be subject to a challenge for cause based upon that juror’s views on the death penalty, the record must show that the juror’s views would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his or her duties in accordance with the oath taken and the trial judge’s instructions. The Supreme Court also indicated that reviewing courts were to give due deference to the trial court’s decision given its position to gauge the juror’s sincerity and demeanor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. State · Havard v. State“It is therefore ORDERED that the Defendant, BABY RAY BENNETT, be examined by DR. JAMES P. GRIGSON, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas, phone # 214-363-3015, a qualified expert in the field of Psychiatry, to determine if the said Defendant is mentally competent to stand trial, his sanity, his mental disease or defects, if any, his dangerousness, his propensity and probability to commit criminal acts of violence that constitute a continuing threat to society.... (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. State“that she was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant would be a continuing threat to society but answered the question ‘yes’ because other members of the jury told her that the judge could not accept an undecided answer on that issue and that they had to stay in the jury room until they reached a decision. She stated that she could never convince the other members to vote ‘no’ so she believed she must vote ‘yes’ since a deadlock would not be accepted by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paton 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.