State v. Benge’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 235 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Treesh (2001)
5 federal appellate · 235 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 State v. Long · State v. Maurer · State v. Mills · State v. Carter · State v. Eley
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A conviction will be reversed only where it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that, absent the prosecutor's comments, the jury would not have found appellant guilty.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dennison · State v. Hudson“In State v. Greer (1981), 66 Ohio St.2d 139 , 20 O.O.3d 157 , 420 N.E.2d 982 , paragraph two of the syllabus, we stated that an accused is not entitled to see grand jury transcripts unless the ends of justice require it and he shows that `a particularized need for disclosure exists which outweighs the need for secrecy.' See, also, State v. Webb (1994), 70 Ohio St.3d 325 , 337 , 638 N.E.2d 1023 , 1034 . Such a need exists "`when the circumstances reveal a probability that the failure to provide the grand jury testimony will deny the defendant a fair trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]bsent clear evidence in the record that the outburst improperly affected the jury, only the trial judge can authoritatively determine whether the jury was disturbed, alarmed, shocked or moved by the demonstration or whether the incident was of such a nature that it necessarily influenced the ultimate verdict of conviction. The answers to those questions invariably depend upon facts and circumstances which a reviewing court cannot ordinarily glean from the record . [Emphasis added.] {¶ 18}”
2 later decisions 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.