State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Chapman (1994), State v. Outlaw (1990)
55 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 State v. Sinclair · State v. Williams · State v. Franko · State v. Carter · State v. Marra
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for you to find the [petitioner] directly committed the predicate crime of robbery as a principal, the state must prove that the [petitioner], in the course of committing a larceny, used or threatened the immediate use of physical force upon another person, that is, [the victim], to prevent or overcome resistance to the taking of the property or to its retention or compelling [the victim] to deliver up the property or to engage in other conduct which aided in the commission of the alleged larceny....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is of constitutional dimension, [t]he applicable test requires the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that, from the viewpoint of the charge as a whole, there is no reasonable possibility that the jury was misled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ruocco
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.