Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2010
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The last section of the act contains a general clause repealing all laws in conflict with this act. But the repealing clause found in the last section of this act has no legal effect whatever. The act is precisely the same in legal import and in point of validity as it would have been without that clause, whose presence makes the act neither more nor less a repealing law. State v. Yardley, 95 Tenn. 558 , 32 S. W. 481 , 34 L. R. A. 656; City of Memphis v. American Exp. Co., 102 Tenn. 341 , 52 S. W. 172 . The words of the caption, viz., ‘and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act/ have no greater virtue or operation in law, not being followed in the body or enacting part of the bill with any repealing provision. Such words cannot of themselves, and without more, give character to the act, but are to be regarded as mere surplusage.” (Page 606.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.