Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Morissette v. United States · Baggett v. Bullitt · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Simpson v. United States · Ladner v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his conclusion regarding the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 16-5-20(a)(2) is demanded by the simple fact that no requirement of a specific intent is set forth in O.C.G.A. § 16-5-20(a)(2).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that [the defendant's] act or omission will cause harm or endanger the safety of the other person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the crime of simple assault as set forth in O.C.G.A. § 16-5-20(a)(2), does not require proof of specific intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.