People v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Sanseverino (2009), People v. Marquez (1976)
51 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 People v. Bennett · Austin v. United States · People v. Rivera · Allison v. United States · United States v. Comer
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he word ‘aid,’ as used in the statute, should be equated with ‘induce,’ and that the statute is aimed at the drug pusher who intentionally seeks to increase and broaden his nefarious activities by encouraging others to use or possess narcotics. It was the clear legislative intent to deal more severely with the drug pusher than with the person who effectuates a sale in response to an unsolicited inquiry.” [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Morris
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.