Patterson v. Gage’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2011
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Walls v. . Bailey · Southwestern Freight & Cotton Press Co. v. Stanard · Adams v. Warner · White v. Reed
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Denver, Colo., September 27th, 1882. “ David Gage, Esq., “ Dear Sir: I will be responsible for the hotel bill of J. W. Hamm, Esq., and will see it paid within twenty days. “ T. M. Patterson.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doyle v. Nichols“is the last rule to be resorted to, and never to be applied except when other rules of interpretation fail.”
1 later decision 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.