Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Hawkins v. State (1983), Koller v. State (1975)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Barker v. Wingo · Moore v. Arizona · Quintana v. Texas · McKinney v. State · Turner 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[MR. WORTHY]: I submit to you that that it just couldn’t have happened that way. There is only those three points of contact, nothing on the arms or feet or hands, nothing there. “Now, I told you why the circumstantial evidence charge was there; there were no eye witnesses. We know that. There were three people there that could tell you what happened, possibly tell you, and Y_and P_are too young. They are not legally competent to testify so we have to go with what we have got— “[MR. HALSEY]: I have to object to the comment on the failure of the defendant to testify. “[MR. WORTHY]: I said nothing about him testifying. “THE COURT: I don’t construe it as any; overrule the objection. “[MR. HALSEY]: Note our exception. “THE COURT: The Court has instructed the jury in the— “[MR. HALSEY]: Ask the jury to disregard the comments. “THE COURT; No, sir. “[MR. HALSEY]: Note our exception.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDaniel 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.