Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(b) In any criminal prosecution under § 5-14-101 et seq. or § 5-26-202 . . . opinion evidence, reputation evidence, or evidence of specific instances of the victim’s prior sexual conduct with the defendant or any other person, evidence of a victim’s prior allegations of sexual conduct with the defendant or any other person, which allegations the victim asserts to be true, or evidence offered by the defendant concerning prior allegations of sexual conduct by the victim with the defendant or any other persons if the victim denies making the allegations is not admissible by the defendant, either through direct examination of any defense witness or through cross-examination of the victim or other prosecution witness, to attack the credibility of the victim, to prove consent or any other defense, or for any other purpose.”

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

2. “[t]he failure to proffer specific evidence renders a relevancy determination impossible. Donihoo v. State, 825 Ark. 488 , 931 S.W.2d 69 (1996); Byrum v. State, 318 Ark. 87 , 884 S.W.2d 248 (1994). Thus, where the defense seeks to introduce evidence of a rape victim’s prior sexual conduct, but makes no proffer of the evidence, we will decline to consider the issue of its admissibility on appeal. Id.; Gaines v. State, 313 Ark. 561 , 855 S.W.2d 956 (1993).”

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