Benson v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 454 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2000
10 federal appellate ·
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. Sykes · Reed v. Ross · Langnes v. Green · Benson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellee that has not filed a cross-appeal ... may not obtain from us relief more extensive than it received in the District Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.