Townsend v. Bomar’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 499 · 1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. DeCoster (1973), 1 Cal. 3d 168 - In Re Williams (1969)
28 federal appellate · 4 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · White v. Ragen
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an investigation of the facts at the prison farm would have produced results, no one could tell; certainly not at this late date [1965, the riot occurred in 1958]. Townsend v. Bomar, supra 351 F.2d at 501 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.