Ex Parte Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Blanco v. State (2000), Monreal v. State (2003)
26 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 Smith 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I further understand that in the event I am convicted I have the legal right of appeal to the court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, and also the right to be represented on appeal by an attorney of my choice or if I am too poor to pay for such attorney or the record on appeal, the Court will, without expense to me, provide an attorney and a proper record for such an appeal, but after consulting with my attorney, I voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently, waive my right to appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alzarka v. State“These decisions rest primarily on the rationale that a defendant's pretrial waiver of the right to appeal is involuntary and `cannot be knowingly and intelligently made' because `the defendant has no way of knowing with certainty the punishment that will be assessed and cannot anticipate the errors that may occur during trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.