Patrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2000
19 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ker v. State of California · Trammell v. State · Alford v. State · Avey 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he accused cannot complain of such a charge [voluntary manslaughter in the absence of proof of heat of passion] if the proof would have supported a finding that he was guilty of a higher degree of homicide than that for which he was convicted.”
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.