Patton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably Sorrell v. Scheuer (1923), Coats v. State (1950)
53 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 Hornsby v. State · Gunter v. State · Stone v. State · Mitchell v. State · Wilson v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant, after testifying, may be asked on cross-examination as to his motives or reasons for his particular acts shown in his direct examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.