State v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2022
17 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Patterson v. New York · State v. Jensen · State v. Walker · State v. Tiedemann
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a] District Court will not be put in error where it was not accorded an opportunity to correct itself. State v. Walker (1966), 148 Mont. 216, 223 , 419 P.2d 300 . The admissibility of evidence to which no objection is made cannot be reviewed on appeal. State v. Armstrong (1977), 172 Mont. 296 , 562 P.2d 1129, 1132 ; State v. Dillon (1951), 125 Mont. 24, 30 , 230 P.2d 764 . The failure to object or to move to strike testimony precludes objection on appeal. State v. Cripps (1978), 177 Mont. 410 , 582 P.2d 312, 317 , 35 St.Rep. 967 .” State v. Patton (1979), 183 Mont. at 422 , 600 P.2d at 197 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Long““A person who knowingly subjects another not his spouse to any sexual contact without consent commits the offense of sexual assault.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Eiler
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.