United States v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 158 · 1986
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably United States v. Necoechea (1993), United States v. Acosta-Cazares (1989)
79 federal appellate · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commissioner v. Engle · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · Cryts v. French
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ntroduction of the entire plea agreement permits the jury to consider fully the possible conflicting motivations underlying the witness' testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ircumstantial evidence alone can sustain a guilty verdict and ... [it need] not remove every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court has broad discretion in determining appropriate jury instructions, and the defendant is not entitled to a particularly worded instruction where the instructions given adequately and correctly cover the substance of the requested instructions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.