Benton v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1943
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Tebo v. . Robinson · 31 Tex. Civ. App. 406 - Wright v. Farmers National Bank · Norton v. Shepard · Walker v. Freeman · Horner v. Starkey
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is entirely inconsistent with the spirit and purpose of the engagement to suppose for a moment that the parties contemplated that the avowed obligation should never be capable of enforcement, even to the extent of the obligor’s ability to pay, unless he should become financially able to meet the entire obligation at once.” (p. 370.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Onaga, Kan., 2-24-1904. “In the matter of the trusteeship of H. H. Benton and myself, I hereby acknowledge that I am personally indebted to Mrs. May Benton to the amount of $5993.62, which I agree to pay as soon as I can, together with annual interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. J. 0. Benton.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benton v. Benton
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.