43 Ala. App. 42 - Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1991
18 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 Stokley v. State · Crawford v. State · State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy · Higginbotham v. State · Empire Life Insurance v. Gee
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.
““. . and in cases of this nature, that is, in criminal cases, the burden is on the State to satisfy you beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the Defendant is guilty before you can return a verdict'finding him guilty. “The Defendant enters into the trial of this case presumed to be innocent, and this presumption of innocence attends and accompanies him and he is entitled to the benefit of this presumption until such time as the jury is satisfied from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty of his guilt. * * * * * * “On the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, after comparing and considering all of the evidence in the case, if your minds are left in such condition that you cannot say that you have an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the Defendant’s guilt, then, you are not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt and the Defendant would be entitled to an acquittal. ****** “If, on the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, you are not so satisfied from the evidence, you are not satisfied from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the Defendant is guilty as charged in the indictment or of either of the two lesser included offenses, it is equally your duty to acquit him. And if you have a reasonable doubt, ladies and gentlemen, if you are not satisfied of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty or if you have a reasonable doubt growing out of the evidence or any part of the evidence or if t”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The oral charge and the charges given (covering reasonable doubt, burden, presumption of innocence, etc.) obviated any need for the court to have given charge 11. See Stokley, supra; Whittle v. State, 213 Ala. 301 , 104 So. 668 ; White v. State, 41 Ala.App. 54 , 123 So.2d 179 (hn. 9).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.