Bentley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · United States of America v. Carlton Humphrey · United States v. Newman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to an instruction on a lesser included offense if there is any evidence fairly tending to bear upon the lesser included offense, however weak that evidence may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baynum 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.