Patterson v. Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1963
21 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 Morrison v. Scotts Bluff County · Day v. Metropolitan Utilities District · Purvis v. Shuman · Brooks v. Thayer County · Spomer v. Allied Electric & Fixture Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where this court established a rule and it has been followed for more than thirteen years by trial courts of this state, it ought not to be changed except for reasons of grave importance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillespie v. Hynes
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.