Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Saldana v. State (1993), Chapman v. State (2001)
42 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 Carroll v. United States · South Dakota v. Opperman · Colorado v. Bertine · Wrenn v. Weinberger · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his went well beyond simply summarizing the facts of his investigation by drawing the ultimate conclusion that [the defendant] was guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nielsen v. State · Fennell v. State“the jury's role, not the witness's, to make this determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. State · Carter v. State“First, the record must clearly present the incident alleged to be error. Second, appellant must demonstrate that a clear and unequivocal rule of law was violated in a clear and obvious, not merely arguable, way. Last, appellant must prove that he was denied a substantial right resulting in material prejudice against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Newport 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.