Commonwealth v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
4
states following
July 2002
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Casale · Connolly v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he principles of self-defense may be involved in an accident defense, not for purposes of establishing the defense of self-defense but to show that the defendant was engaged in a lawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Watkins“defendant could invoke the right of self-defense in arguing that his act which accidentally resulted in the killing of [the victim] was not itself unlawful”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burriss
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.