People v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 179 Cal. App. 4th 442 - Kelly v. CB&I CONSTRUCTORS, INC. (2009), 127 Cal. App. 4th 734 - People v. Hagedorn (2005)
28 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. National Dairy Products Corp. · Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 44 Cal. 3d 1188 - Evangelatos v. Superior Court · 52 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Pieters · 1 Cal. 4th 495 - People v. Kelly
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[L]anguage that appears unambiguous on its face may be shown to have a latent ambiguity.' [Citation.] In such a case, a court may turn to customary rules of statutory construction, the `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he intent prevails over the letter, and the letter will, if possible, be so read as to conform to the spirit of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“` [Citation.] It is not always preferable to rely on the literal meaning of the words used. `”
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.