Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Pyle v. State (1993), Nance v. State (1996)
22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. White · United States v. Bell · Alford v. State · Cobb 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statement is not hearsay if:... it is... a statement by a co-conspirator during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.