Patton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2016
20 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 Beeman v. State · Luther v. State · Dunville v. State · Brown v. State · Smith 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact of intoxication is known to produce a general lessening of inhibitions. It may, therefore, evince a state of mind consistent with the recklessness alleged in the affidavit. Thus, it is material as going* to the res gestae of the crime. 1 Wigmore, Evidence, § 85 (1957 Supp.) We conclude that the evidence, to which appellant has made objection, was properly admitted.” 179 N.E.2d, at 872 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sells v. State“A sentence, although suspended, places some limitation upon the conduct of the party involved and, to this extent, it is a penalty imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.