Patterson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), O'Dell v. Commonwealth (1988)
6 federal appellate · 63 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · Adams v. Texas · Stamper v. Commonwealth · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the process of selection of an impartial jury permits elimination for cause of those veniremen who are biased in favor of the death penalty under all circumstances as well as those who are biased against its imposition under all circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stamper v. Muncie“[u]nder the Federal and State Constitutions, U.S. Const. amends. VI and XIV; Va. Const. art. 1, § 8, an accused has a right to trial by an `impartial jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]hese guarantees require jurors to be impartial not only upon the issue of guilt or innocence but also upon the question of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.