State v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[Arguments that] ask the jury to place themselves in the shoes of the victim or make an appeal 10 to the jury to protect the community” are improper
• “[Arguments that] ask the jury to place themselves in the shoes of the victim or make an appeal 10 to the jury to protect the community” are improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Belt
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2024-12-18· cited 7×
• State v. Dempsey
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2021-07-02· cited 5×
• State v. Heer
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2024-09-04· cited 1×
• Foote v. Young
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2024-07-17
• State v. Long
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2025-12-10

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Puckett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-25· cited 5,608×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• United States v. Dominguez Benitez
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-14· cited 2,402×
• Berghuis v. Thompkins
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-01· cited 1,592×
• Terrence Smith v. Robert Zachary, James P. Nickerson, Lieutenant, Herman S. Nelson, Graciano Arroyo, James A. Phillips
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-06-28· cited 101×
• State v. McBride
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-09-17· cited 83×
• State v. Willis
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 74×
• United States v. Rush-Richardson
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-08-04· cited 50×
• State v. Janklow
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2005-02-23· cited 44×
• KRANTZ, INC. v. Nissan North America, Inc.
  D. South Dakota· 2005-12-28· cited 39×
• State v. Arabie
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2003-05-21· cited 34×
• State v. Beck
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-06-23· cited 33×
• State v. Thomas
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2011-04-13· cited 30×
• State v. Bausch
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2017-01-04· cited 30×
• State v. McMillen
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2019-07-10· cited 24×
• State v. Stone
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2019-03-20· cited 21×
• State v. FIFTEEN IMPOUNDED CATS
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-06-23· cited 18×
• State v. Quist
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2018-03-28· cited 15×
• State v. Thoman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2021-02-17· cited 11×
• State v. Vortherms
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2020-12-02· cited 10×