Townsend v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 1979 · most notably Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana (1900), Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs (1922)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Lawton v. Steele · State v. Gerhardt · Deal v. State · Rideout v. Knox · Jamieson v. Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
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.