State v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1996
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Dulany · State v. Johnson · State v. Lowrey · State v. King
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person acts “recklessly” as to causing serious physical injury if he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his conduct will result in serious physical injury and such disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree when: he ... (3) Recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.