State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably State v. Brown (1984), State v. Silhan (1981)
62 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 Chapman v. State of California · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Moore · State v. Williams
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party cannot be allowed to impeach a witness on the cross-examination by calling out evidence culpatory of himself and there stop, leaving the opposing party without opportunity to have the witness explain his conduct, and thus place it in an unobjectionable light if he can. In such case the opposing party has the right to such explanation, even though it may affect adversely the party who cross-examined. Upon the examination in chief, the evidence may not be competent, but the cross-examination may make it so.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · State v. Baymon“it is a general rule of evidence that in a prosecution for a particular crime the state cannot offer evidence tending to show that the accused has committed another distinct, independent, or separate offense, (here) evidence was elicited from Pamela Wiggins on cross-examination calculated and intended to show bias and to discredit her testimony. This calls for application of the rule that where evidence of bias is elicited on cross-examination, the witness is entitled to explain, if he can, on redirect examination, the circumstances giving rise to bias so that the witness may stand in a fair and just light before the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State“A. I have disliked (defendant) ever since he started arguments and all with my mother. I have some other reasons for disliking him, all the other things he had done to me. Q. What are some of the things that he's done to you to cause you to dislike (defendant)? A. He raped me. (objection to strike by defense counsel overruled)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor 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.