State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Copas v. Commissioner of Correction (1995), State v. Sivri (1994)
89 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 Hullum v. United States · State v. Sinclair · State v. Lewis · State v. Ortiz · State v. Rasmussen
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t shall not be a defense under this section if such mental disease or defect was proximately caused by the voluntary ingestion, inhalation or injection of intoxicating liquor or any drug or substance, or any combination thereof”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the three judge [panel] could reasonably have determined that the defendant had planned his attack on the victim and that he had calmly and deliberately executed that plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because the court's rejection of the defendant's affirmative defenses is reasonably supported by the evidence, his claim must fail”
1 later decision 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.