Turner v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2014
2 district · 15 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 Thompson v. Anderman · Kelly v. Montoya · Hiniger v. Judy · Horrocks v. Rounds · Trujillo v. Chavez
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that a party charged with a traffic offense merely paid a fine, is not an admission against interest in the civil case involving the offense, and is not admissible in evidence. However, where that person pays a fine because he thought he was guilty, evidence of the offense committed is admissible in evidence.... We hold the rule to be that a party who is charged with a traffic offense and pays a fine because he understood or thought he was guilty, is akin to a party who pleads guilty. It constitutes an admission against interest and is admissible in evidence. Admissions made by a party are the strongest kind of evidence. Such admissions are binding and conclusive upon him if uncon-tradicted and unexplained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beale v. Speck
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.