People v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably State v. Currie (1964), Commonwealth v. McCan (1931)
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Diaz v. United States · Gavieres v. United States · Morgan v. Devine · Morey v. Commonwealth · State v. Watson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is gross and culpable negligence for a drunken man to guide and operate an automobile upon a public highway, and one doing so and occasioning injuries to another, causing death, is guilty of manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lardie · People v. Layman““In case of manslaughter committed through gross or culpable negligence while doing a lawful act the duty which was neglected or improperly performed must be charged as well as the acts of the accused constituting failure to perform or improper performance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The information sufficiently charges that the unlawful act was the proximate cause of the accident and avers a direct relation between the unlawful act of operating the automobile while intoxicated and the accident”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lardie
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.