Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably Guenther v. State (1968), Kennedy v. State (1973)
51 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 Campbell v. State · Clarke v. State · Thomas v. State · Parham v. State · Armstrong v. Blackwood
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inexorable logic is that although the charge does state a correct principle applicable to the case, no reversal shall follow, unless, in the opinion of the appellate court, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall appear that the error has probably injuriously affected substantial rights of the parties. In other words, the refusal of a proper charge does not per se import injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connolly v. State“"A riper wisdom and experience decreed that it were better not to close the mouths of parties, even in criminal cases. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"At common law the defendant in a criminal case was not a competent witness in his own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.