Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005 · most notably Newton v. State (1977), Turner v. Arkansas (1972)
21 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 Hoag v. State of New Jersey · State v. Hoag · Harris v. State · Ringer v. State · Jones v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present case, petitioner was not charged with robbery at the first trial, but the State has stipulated that the robbery and murder arose out of ‘the same set of facts, circumstances, and the same occasion.’ The crucial question, therefore, is what issues a general verdict of acquittal at the murder trial resolved. The jury was instructed that it must find petitioner guilty of first-degree murder if it found that he had killed the decedent Yates either with premeditation or unintentionally during the course of a robbery. The jury’s verdict thus necessarily means that it found petitioner not guilty of the killing. *** Had the jury found petitioner present at the crime scene, it would have been obligated to return a verdict of guilty of murder even if it believed that he had not actually pulled the trigger. The only logical conclusion is that the jury found him not present at the scene of the murder and robbery, a finding that negates the possibility of a constitutionally valid conviction for the robbery of Yates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. State“The robbery was alleged only as a condition or circumstance characterizing the murder as first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bosnick 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.