State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 68 later decisions

states following

February 2017

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Day (1995), State v. Crafts (1993)

2 federal appellate · 66 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Sheppard v. Maxwell

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 , 95 S.Ct. 2525 , 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), the court suggested three grounds for denying a defendant his right to self-representation: (1) he makes the request in untimely fashion such that granting it would disrupt the proceedings; id., at 807 , 95 S.Ct. 2525 ; (2) the defendant engages in serious obstructionist misconduct; id., at 834 n. 46, 95 S.Ct. 2525 ; and (3) the defendant has not knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel. Id., at 835 , 95 S.Ct. 2525 ; see 2 W. LaFave & J. Israel, Criminal Procedure (1984) § 11.5(d), pp. 47-49.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 93 Conn. App. 458 - State v. Flanagan · 102 Conn. App. 105 - State v. Flanagan
“. . . an extreme circumstance where there has been inherently prejudicial publicity such as to make the probability of prejudice highly likely or unavoidable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 5996 - State v. Reynolds, No. Cr4-207279 (Jun. 7, 1994) · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 12414 - State v. Carpenter, No. Cr99-250705t (Oct. 10, 2000)
““(1) If the judicial authority is satisfied that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had where the case is pending . . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 33 Conn. App. 205 - State v. Chapman · 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 5996 - State v. Reynolds, No. Cr4-207279 (Jun. 7, 1994)

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.