Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Tit. 34, § 90, Code, supra, denounces as criminal the failure to provide for a dependent wife or children. One of the elements of the crime is that the wife or children must be ‘then and there in destitute or necessitous circumstances.’ Tit. 34, § 90. The petitioner’s proposed submission of facts contains no reference to the condition of the children. The State’s brief contains its statement of the facts of the case as required by Rule 28, ARAP; however, nowhere in its statement of the facts is any reference made to the condition of the children, nor does the State argue that such facts exist. Rather, the State contends that a showing of economic need satisfies the requirement of destitute or necessitous circumstances, and the fact that the wife is out of work, that the husband has failed to fulfill his obligation under the divorce decree, etc., constitutes such a showing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Poke v. State

2. ““ ‘In the instant case, one can only surmise as to the actual condition of the children. Nothing was said directly about their state of being. A criminal conviction under Tit. 34, § 90, cannot stand as a matter of law without such evidence.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Poke v. State