Townsend v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court was not required to consider defendant’s relatively minor and unrelated criminal history as a mitigating circumstance
• finding no abuse of discretion in trial court’s refusal to find a mitigating 11 circumstance in defendant’s criminal history consisting of single misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving
• affirming trial court’s imposition of consecutive sentences based on multiple victims
• court held that it was not adequate for the trial court to “merge” a conviction for a factually included lesser offense, notwithstanding that the trial court did not sentence the defendant on the merged offense; rather, the offense “must be vacated”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Christina M. Kovats v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-02-07· cited 39×
• Casady v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-09-28· cited 33×
• David J. Harman v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-02-24· cited 29×
• Padgett v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-10-23· cited 12×
• Larry D. Bass v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-04-27· cited 9×
• Tierra Greene v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-30
• Robert Stevenson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-26
• Casey Mae Measles v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-18
• Kwame Riddle v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-31
• David J. Harman v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-03-13
• Anthony J. Williams v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-04-05
• Lisa Banks v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-04-17
• Susanna Conlin v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-18
• Dino Orville French v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-11-26
• Desmond R. Brown v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-12-19
• Marlin R. Edwards, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-05-29
• Tron Gorbonosenko v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-08-20
• Darryl Anderson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-12-13

Cites

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

• Serino v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-11-19· cited 194×
• Dowdell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 108×
• O'CONNELL v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-03-02· cited 97×
• Marcum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-29· cited 90×
• Newsome v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-10-14· cited 72×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-11-15· cited 64×
• Weaver v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-04-18· cited 57×
• Stout v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-09-22· cited 53×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-04-27· cited 44×
• Payton v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-11-30· cited 41×
• Sanquenetti v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-04-14· cited 37×
• Samaniego-Hernandez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-30· cited 35×
• Prickett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-11-21· cited 34×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-09-20· cited 24×
• Hayden v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-07-07· cited 22×
• Ewing v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-12-27· cited 21×
• Primmer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-20· cited 20×
• Moore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-05-23· cited 18×
• Scruggs v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-31· cited 16×
• Settle v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-04-22· cited 16×