United States v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 152 · 1977
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably United States v. Twigg (1978), United States v. McLernon (1984)
51 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Berger v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adequately indicated why he thought 'the probative value of the conviction(s) supported by specific facts and circumstances substantially outweighs * * * (this) prejudicial effect,' as required by the new Rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the court determines, in the interests of justice, that the probative value of the conviction supported by specific facts and circumstances substantially outweighs its prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.