Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Bolin v. State (1966), Judge v. State (1976)
55 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 Sparf v. United States · Strader v. State · Cooper v. State · Rushing v. State · Powers 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ‘But if it is clear from the evidence that a lesser degree of guilt is not involved, it is not error for the court to refuse the request for, or to fail to give such instructions.’ Wharton’s Criminal Law and Procedure, Anderson, Vol. 5, § 2099, page 268. Following this quotation cases from many jurisdictions are cited including annotations in 21 A.L.R., 603 ; 27 A.L.R., 1097 ; 102 A.L.R., 1019 . And, as said on page 270 of Wharton, the reason it is not necessary to give the charge 'as to which there was no evidence, the theory being that he is not prejudiced thereby and cannot complain.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 40-2518. Charge as to included offenses. — It shall be the duty of all judges charging juries in cases of criminal prosecutions for any felony wherein two (2) or more grades or classes of offense may be included in the indictment, to charge the jury as to all of the law of each offense included in the indictment, without any request on the part of the defendant to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. • . In other words, all Strader teaches is that where there are issues raised by the evidence of lesser included offenses then it is necessary to charge these, * * * * * * “. . . Strader , it seems to us, adheres to this principle, that the charge of lesser included offenses is necessary only when the evidence requires it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.