Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably McBee v. State (1963), Carroll v. State (1963)
114 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.
Relationships
Relies on Cooper v. State · Ferguson v. Moore · King v. State · King v. State · City of Haskell v. Webb
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the case of Turner v. State, 188 Tenn. 312 , at page 324, 219 S.W.2d 188 , the Court quoted with approval the following : “ ‘ “It is thoroughly settled, under our practice, that objectionable argument or improper remarks of counsel afford no ground for a new trial, where no objection is made or exception taken at the time of the argument. Smith v. State, 90 Tenn. 575 , 18 S.W. 248 ; King v. State, 91 Tenn. 617 , 20 S.W. 169 ; Morgan v. Duffey, 94 Tenn. 686 , 30 S.W. 735 ; Ferguson v. Moore, 98 Tenn. 342 , 39 S.W. 341 .” Sherman v. State, 125 Tenn. 19, 47 , 140 S.W. 209 , 216.’ ””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(3) No assignment of error on the Judge's charge to the jury, either for omission or inadequacy, will be considered unless a special request was tendered, pointing out the defendant's contention as to the error. Code sec. 11750; State v. Becton, 66 Tenn. 138 ; Powers v. State, 117 Tenn. 363, 370 , 97 S.W. 815 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crawford v. State · Bishop v. State““The inquiry in this Court is not whether the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but whether on the record made in the Trial Court, the defendant proved his innocence by a preponderance of the evidence.” Turner v. State, 188 Tenn. 312 , 219 S.W.2d 188 (1949).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shiflet 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.