Benson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1974
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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a person is indicted and tried for a violation of the intoxicating liquor law as a second offender, it is the safer practice, if not indeed essential, that the jury should expressly find the historical fact of a former conviction as alleged. (Emphasis supplied.) ****** “Whether a verdict of guilty is responsive to the allegations of the indictment as to the prior conviction is doubtful.” Supra at 231.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barton 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.