Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1991
13 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 Wear v. Wear · Rainey v. State · Godfrey v. Vinson · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Turnipseed · Tidwell 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(41) To constitute murder in the second degree, defendant must inflict an act of violence which produces death, with intent to kill decedent, or do an act of violence which ordinarily in the usual course of events produces death or does great bodily harm. To constitute manslaughter in the first degree, defendant must have an intention to kill or inflict an act of violence which ordinarily or in the usual course of things produces death or great bodily harm.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'If by misfortune or misadventure, while in the performance of a lawful act, exercising due care, and without intention to do harm, human life is taken, the law will excuse. There must, however, be a concurrence of these facts, and the absence of any one will involve in guilt.' Tidwell v. State , 70 Ala. 33 , 44-45 (1881), quoted in Turner v. State , 38 Ala. App. 73 , 77 , 77 So.2d 503 , 506 (1954), cert. denied, 262 Ala. 704 , 77 So.2d 506 (1955). *Page 273”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““After a careful consideration of the evidence we are of the opinion it was sufficient to justify the submission of a wanton killing to the consideration of the jury and to sustain the judgment of conviction, and requested charge 7 (affirmative as to first degree manslaughter) was properly refused.” (Parenthetical matter supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanby 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.