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← 83 MD 331 - Townsend v. Kurtz

Townsend v. Kurtz’s Empirical Analysis

1896

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
11
states following
June 1990
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Mitchell v. King (1976), Collison v. State (1938)

3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Eckloff v. District of Columbia · Speed v. Common Council · Miles v. Stevenson · Hallgren v. Campbell · Lynn v. Mayor of Cumberland

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The Legislature, in creating the office, had the right to provide for its vacation in such manner as they saw fit, and in ascertaining what the manner is, we must take their language in its ordinary import.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Johnson v. Laffoon
  2. “for the term of four years * * * and shall hold his office during the term for which he is appointed, or until his successor is appointed, and qualified, unless sooner removed by the governor.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Drolshagen v. County of Wayne
  3. “When the statute has given the appointing power authority to remove the appointee, although originally appointed for a definite term of years, it can be exercised.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Drolshagen v. County of Wayne

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.