Turner v. Jabe’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 924 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Bell v. State (1996), United States v. Michael J. Mikalajunas, United States of America v. Craig E. Largent, United States of America v. Michael J. Mikalajunas (1999)
5 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac · McCleskey v. Zant
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It makes 'a mockery of our system of justice for a convicted murderer, who, through his own interminable efforts of delay has secured the almost-indefinite postponement of his sentence, to then claim that the almost-indefinite postponement renders his sentence unconstitutional.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.