State v. Patel’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palko v. State of Connecticut · Herrera v. Collins · Stack v. Boyle · State v. Geisler · Paalan 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have never undertaken the necessary textual and historical examination to reach an informed conclusion.... Therefore, we now undertake such an examination, * informed by settled factors that guide this process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Kuchta v. Arisian
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.