State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Santiago (1998), Giaimo v. City of New Haven (2001)
3 federal appellate · 136 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, due process does not require that information considered by the trial judge prior to sentencing meet the same high procedural CT Page 11720 standard as evidence introduced at trial. Rather, judges may consider a wide variety of information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consistent with due process the trial court may consider responsible unsworn or out-of-court information relative to the circumstances of the crime and to the convicted person's life and circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he sole purpose [of a presentence investigation report] is to enable the court, within limits fixed by statute, to impose an appropriate penalty, fitting the offender as well as the crime”
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.