Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2016
9 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Furman v. Georgia · 60 Cal. 2d 482 - People v. Henderson · Clarence Murphy v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · State v. Watson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevail, [defendant] must establish . . . that two death sentences to run concurrently, or even one, is not as severe as two sentences of life imprisonment to run consecutively. He fails to do so. Life is precious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well-established that a legal sentence cannot be increased after the defendant has begun to serve it.”
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.