605 So. 2d 767 - Townsend v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2014
14 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 Williams v. United States · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · 77 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Spates · United States v. Ashley · Peterson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lower courts and prosecuting attorneys must not commit errors on the speculation that the Supreme Court [or the Court of Appeals] will affirm on the ground of harmless error.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the phrase `dishonesty or false statement' in 609(a)(2) means crimes such as perjury or subornation of perjury, false statement, fraud, embezzlement, false pretense, or any other offense in the nature of crimen falsi. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackman v. State“`a propensity on the part of the defendant to have acted on the present occasion in conformity with the criminal character suggested by the previous conviction.'”
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.