Armstrong v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1979
3 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Market Company v. Hoffman · Smith v. Adams · John Butler Levi Reynolds Junior and William Overfield Late Board of Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvanias v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Craig v. O'Rear · Bridges v. Shallcross
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The powers of the Government are divided into three separate departments; the legislative, the Executive including the Administrative, and the Judicial; and no person, charged with official duties under one of these departments, shall exercise any of the functions of another, except as in this Constitution expressly provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tucker 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.