State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Patterson (1994), State v. Patterson (1996)
51 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 28 U.S.C. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Johnson v. Zerbst · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This exception to the warrant requirement requires that the officers have probable cause to believe that the vehicle contains contraband. . . The probable cause determination must be based on objective facts that could have justified the issuance of a warrant by a neutral magistrate at the time the search was made. . . . `Probable cause to search exists if: (1) there is probable cause to believe that the particular items sought to be CT Page 6235 seized are connected with criminal activity or will assist in a particular apprehension or conviction and (2) there is probable cause to believe that the items sought to be seized will be found in the place to be searched.' (Emphasis in the original; citations omitted.) State v. Delmonaco , 194 Conn. 331 , 337 , 481 A.2d 40 , cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1036 , 105 S.Ct. 511 , 83 L.Ed.2d 401 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.