289 So. 2d 685 - Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1998
11 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 260 So. 2d 445 - Clark v. State · 279 So. 2d 594 - Jones v. State · 288 So. 2d 457 - Berry v. State · 213 So. 2d 560 - Pendergraft v. State · 241 So. 2d 668 - Pitts 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the very moment the fatal shot was fired”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“There appears to be some confusion as to this instruction but we point out at this time that any such instruction should make it clear to the jury that `malice aforethought' must pre-exist the infliction of a mortal wound in a murder case.”
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.