Turner v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
638 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 639 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 104 Ohio App. 3d 598 - Hoyt, Inc. v. Gordon & Associates, Inc. (1995), Byrd v. Smith (2006)
638 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · Hounshell v. American States Insurance · Fyffe v. Jeno's, Inc.
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 639 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that might affect the outcome of the suit under the governing law.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“so one-sided that one party must prevail as a matter of law[?]”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even the inferences to be drawn from the underlying facts contained in the evidentiary materials, such as affidavits and depositions, must be construed in a light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
16 later decisions 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.