Patterson v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Vinson v. Hartley (1996), Sharpe v. Case Produce, Inc. (1999)
39 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 O'Neal v. Bowles · Janasik v. Fairway Oaks Villas Horizontal Property Regime · Toole v. Toole · Allstate Insurance v. Durham · Hickman v. Hickman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party cannot for the first time raise an issue by way of a Rule 59(e) motion which could have been raised at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Beard
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.