Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “Therefore the court erred in permitting the amendment of the indictment with reference to a substantial part of the crime as charged by the grand jury. Whether or not it was necessary in the first instance to charge that the unlawful cohabitation was either in adultery or fornication, since it did not charge habitual sexual intercourse between the parties as the statute prescribed the state could do, we do not decide. But, having specifically charged the cohabitation,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 365 So. 2d 644 - Van Norman v. State

2. “The Court reversed a conviction, saying: However, the instructions granted on behalf of the state wholly fail to require the jury to believe beyond a reasonable doubt, from circumstances or otherwise, that either of the appellants were married to some other person at the time complained of, before the jury could return a verdict of guilty.... This omission was held to be fatal error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 365 So. 2d 644 - Van Norman v. State

3. “they not being then and there lawfully married each to the other, did lewdly and unlawfully cohabit together in adultery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 365 So. 2d 644 - Van Norman v. State