Thomas Ex Rel. Patterson v. Henson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Waterson v. General Motors Corp. (1988), Law v. Superior Court of State of Ariz. (1988)
2 district · 30 state decisions
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 State v. Gunzelman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e believe that the creation of a “seat belt defense” is a matter for the Legislature, not for the judiciary. We therefore affirm that part of the Court of Appeals’ opinion that upholds the award in favor of plaintiffs and reverse that part that creates a “seat belt defense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.