Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Anderson v. State (1981), People v. Adams (1976)
52 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 112 Ga. App. 212 - Interstate Life & Accident Insurance v. Whitlock · Wooten v. State · Seymour v. State · Toler v. State · 110 Ga. App. 625 - Pittman 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The identity of such blood samples need not be proved beyond all possibility of doubt or that all possibility of tampering with them be excluded. The circumstances need only establish reasonable assurance of the identity of the sample [citations omitted].””
2 later decisions 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.