State v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 state decisions

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court, on review of a lower court’s denial of a motion for directed verdict, will view the facts in a light most strongly in favor of upholding the verdict of the jury. State v. Manis, 95 Ariz. 27 , 386 P.2d 77 . A motion for directed verdict does not question the competency of evidence, rather its sufficiency. State v. Holliday, 92 Ariz. 168 , 375 P.2d 370 . There is no duty on the trial court to grant such a motion where there is substantial evidence the defendant is guilty of the crime charged. State v. Silvas, 91 Ariz. 386 , 372 P.2d 718 , cert. denied, 371 U.S. 970 , 83 S.Ct. 552 , 9 L.Ed.2d 539 . There is sufficient evidence to submit a case to a jury where facts are disclosed from which the jury may legitimately reach either of two verdicts, and where there is substantial evidence that the defendant committed the crime charged. State v. Holliday, supra.” State v. Turner, 101 Ariz. 85 at p. 89 , 416 P.2d 409 at p. 412 (1966).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Moreno

2. ““To say that such proceedings constituted a ‘search’ of the automobile would be stretching the English language to an unreasonable length. The officers saw the defendant in the actual commission of a misdemeanor before any search was made and rightly arrested him. The liquor was then seized. The keg and its contents were properly admitted in evidence.” Ruiz v. State, 32 Ariz. supra at 123, 256 P. at 362 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Childs