585 So. 2d 495 - State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2011
11 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 Rumph v. State · 466 So. 2d 1140 - PP v. State · 559 So. 2d 702 - In Interest of JH
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“policy reason for excusing false testimony in order to induce witnesses to change their statement and tell the truth . . . is no longer applicable after an arrest has occurred”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Townsend, by his constant lying, made the investigation of a simple misdemean- or driving without a license charge far more time consuming than it normally would be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. A.A.R. v. State · AAR 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.