Patel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Inman v. State (2006), Clark v. State (2005)
25 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Lumpkin v. State · Andrews v. State · Callahan v. State · Crawford 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]efendant took out a pistol and yelled for the intruder to `halt.' A few minutes went by; it was quiet. Then defendant shot the pistol three times. A bullet pierced a plywood covering which had been nailed to the outside of the building and entered [the victim's] brain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patel v. State“the person using such force reasonably believes that it is necessary to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Patel v. State“any assault upon [Patel], and any justification, was over when [Patel] started shooting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patel 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.