Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 1979 · most notably Hill v. State (1922), 31 Ala. App. 77 - Kabase v. State (1943)
67 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 Morris v. State · National Park Bank v. L. & N. R. R. · Williams v. State · Winslow v. State · Sharp 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The guilty, as well as the innocent, have a right to be tried in accordance with the law of the land. The innocent ought not to be punished, and the law does not intend or provide that they shall be punished; and as to the guilty, the law provides that such shall not be punished except in the mode and manner provided by the law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““But, to allow such testimony to go to the jury, a foundation must he laid by proof sufficient, in the opinion of the judge presiding, to establish, prima facie, the existence of such conspiracy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beech v. State
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.