Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Francis v. Franklin (1985), Lamb v. Jernigan (1982)
21 federal appellate · 80 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Environmental Protection Agency v. Brown · Jarrell v. State · Watkins v. State · Coleman 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conduct of the voir dire is within the discretion of the trial court, and the court’s rulings are proper absent some manifest abuse of discretion. Welch v. State, 237 Ga. 665 (5) ( 229 SE2d 390 ) (1976); Gatlin v. State, 236 Ga. 707 (2) ( 225 SE2d 224 ) (1976). Whether to strike a juror for cause lies within the discretion of the court. Welch, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Westbrook v. State“The decision to grant a change of venue lies within the discretion of the trial court, and its discretion will not be disturbed absent an abuse of that discretion. Allen v. State, 235 Ga. 709, 713 ( 221 SE2d 405 ) (1975); Jarrell v. State, 234 Ga. 410, 415 ( 216 SE2d 258 ) (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran v. State“These two allegedly biased jurors did not sit on the jury which convicted appellant, nor has he shown that he was prejudiced or harmed because he used peremptory strikes to eliminate the two challenged jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradham v. State
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.