United States v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
150 U.S. 65 · 1893
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Durbin v. United States (1954), McArthur Bro's v. Commonwealth (1908)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 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 Counselman v. Hitchcock · United States v. Ewing · United States v. Jones
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] criminal charge, strictly speaking, exists only when a formal written complaint has been made against the accused, and a prosecution initiated. It is true the popular understanding of the term is “accusation,” and it is freely used with reference to all accusations, whether oral, in the newspapers, or otherwise; but, in legal phraseology, it is properly limited to such accusations as have taken shape in a prosecution. In the eyes of the law, a person is charged with crime only when he is called upon in a legal proceeding to answer to such a charge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As this section requires proceedings to be taken ‘agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such state,’ it is proper to look at the law of the state in which the services in such case are rendered, to determine what is necessary and proper to be done, and inferentially for what services the commissioner is entitled to payment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hearing and deciding on.criminal charges,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.