Townsend v. Greeley’s Empirical Analysis
72 U.S. 326 · 1866
Citation profile
52
cited by 52 later decisions
18
cited 18 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
November 1979
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1979 · most notably Knight v. United Land Ass'n (1891), United States v. Title Insurance & Trust Co. (1924)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
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.