State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Lightfoot v. State (1976), State Ex Rel. Sullivan v. Maggio (1983)
31 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 State v. Glantz
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * * * * D. Whoever attempts to commit any crime shall be punished as follows: (1) If the offense so attempted is punishable by death or life imprisonment, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than fifty years; (2) If the offense so attempted is theft or receiving stolen things, and is not punishable as a felony, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. If the offense so attempted is theft or receiving stolen things, and is punishable as a felony, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; (3) In all other cases he shall be fined or imprisoned or both, in the same manner as for the offense attempted; such fine or imprisonment shall not exceed one-half of the largest fine, or one-half of the longest term or imprisonment prescribed for the offense so attempted, or both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [A] person convicted of “attempt” shall be fined and imprisoned in “the same manner” as for the offense attempted; but such fine or imprisonment shall not exceed one-half of the largest fine, or one-half of the longest term of imprisonment prescribed for the offense so attempted, or both. In the case of “attempted armed robbery” the phrase “in the same manner” means that except for the term of imprisonment, which is specifically provided for, the other aspects of the fine or imprisonment shall be “in the same manner” as provided for armed robbery; that is, “at hard labor” and “without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.””
3 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.