State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably State v. Johnston (1988), 37 Cal. 3d 385 - People v. Guerra (1984)
44 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · State Ex Rel. Collins v. SUPERIOR COURT, ETC. · State v. Mena · State v. MacK · State v. Buchanan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to permit the Petitioner to discover 'all reports or results of scientific tests and experiments made in connection with this case' and '[a]ll information in the possession of the County Attorney which the Defendant could use as evidence favorable to the accused.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Black
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.