Patterson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1939 · most notably Hubbard v. Slavens (1909), Egger v. Egger (1910)
28 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 Blount v. Spratt · Gage v. Gates · South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Bretz · State ex rel. Guinan v. Jarrott · Leavitt v. Taylor
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party in an equity case may, if he sees fit, appeal from the judgment or decree without a bill of exceptions, he may stand on the record proper, but in that event he can only assail the judgment on the ground that it is not supported by the pleadings, he cannot ask a reversal of the judgment on the ground that it is not justified by the (chancellor's) findings of facts.”
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.