Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “seeks to replace court-appointed counsel with privately retained counsel, or previously retained counsel with newly retained counsel, or privately retained counsel with court-appointed counselLl . . . the focus is on the right to counsel of ones choice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BRASS (DEQUINCY) v. STATE

2. “[T]rial error [s]' are subject to harmless-error review because these errors 'may. . be quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented in order to determine whether [they were] harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. State

3. “is designed to determine whether [an] attorney-client conflict is such that it impedes the adequate representation that the Sixth Amendment guarantees to all defendants, including those who cannot afford to hire their own attorneys,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BRASS (DEQUINCY) v. STATE