State v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Ballard (1981), State v. Irish (1986)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 181 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his court has been reluctant to embrace unequivocally the specific holdings of Boykin. 'This requirement of an item-by-item review of constitutional rights on a guilty plea is a strained and a too extreme construction of those cases.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before accepting a guilty plea a judge is expected to sufficiently examine the defendant to determine whether he understands the nature of the charge, the possible penalty and the effect of his plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Irish · State v. Hill“outline what should be the minimum procedure in the taking of such pleas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Irish
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.