Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Denby v. State (1983), Tamez v. State (2000)
31 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 Burks v. United States · Greene v. Massey · McGee 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Owner" means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor. § 1.07(a)(28) provides: "Possession" means actual care, custody, control, or management.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Granado v. State · Ellis v. State“Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 24th day of March, 1988 in Hidalgo County, Texas, the [appellant] did then and there intentionally or knowingly appropriate by acquiring and otherwise exercising control over property other than real property, to-wit: $3,155.00 in United States currency and if you further find beyond a reasonable doubt that all of said property was obtained pursuant to one scheme or continuing course of conduct which began on or about May 15, 1987 and continued until on or about March 1988 and the aggregate value of the property so appropriated was $750.00 and more but less than $20,000.00 from LARRY THIBADOUX, the owner thereof, without the effective consent of said owner, and with intent to deprive the said owner of said property, then you will find the [appellant] guilty of theft. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.