State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002), State v. Magers (2008)
32 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 Strickland v. Washington · Rogers v. United States · Scherl v. Fisher · 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland · Shannon v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his strict prohibition against informing the jury of sentencing considerations ensures impartial juries and prevents unfair influence on a jury's deliberations.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is trivial, or formal, or merely academic, and was not prejudicial to the substantial rights of the party assigning it, and in no way affected the final outcome of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here was no possible advantage to be gained by defense counsel's failures to object to the comments regarding the death penalty. On the contrary, such instructions, if anything, would only increase the likelihood of a juror convicting the petitioner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mason · State v. Hicks
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.