Townsell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Washington v. State (1953), Jackson v. State (1954)
44 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 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · Caldwell v. State · Brown v. State · Daughdrill v. State · 19 Ala. App. 181 - Kilgore v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court is vested with discretion in the conduct of a trial and appellate courts will not interfere therewith unless it clearly appears that there has been an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is within the sound discretion of the trial judge to allow the jury to inspect a relevant place or object outside the courtroom.”
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.