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.

• concluding that considering the feelings of the victim's family, among other things, does not make the decision to seek the death penalty arbitrary
• two murders; also (b)(1) (intentional killing during robbery) aggravator; death sentence affirmed
• two murders; also (b)(1) (intentional killing during robbery) aggravator; death sentence affirmed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Lavers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1991-07-23· cited 189×
• Timberlake v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 148×
• Lowery v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-10-04· cited 141×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-02-19· cited 138×
• Roche v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 125×
• Canaan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 120×
• Ajabu v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-03-06· cited 116×
• Wisehart v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 83×
• Prowell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-04· cited 65×
• Wallace v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 52×
• United States v. Curtis
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1991-04-18· cited 51×
• Rondon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-05-25· cited 50×
• Pasco v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 36×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-15· cited 28×
• Dumes v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-11-05· cited 23×
• Hastings v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-10-09· cited 21×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-03-13· cited 20×
• Howey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-08-14· cited 18×
• Serano v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-06-14· cited 15×
• Scruggs v. Allen County/City of Fort Wayne
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-28· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• Lee v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-03· cited 1,066×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 813×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Cruz v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 734×
• Parker v. Randolph
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 590×
• Loyd v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-01-11· cited 405×
• Bieghler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 201×
• Burris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-06-29· cited 127×
• Judy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-01-30· cited 96×
• State v. McCormick
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-12-10· cited 96×