Patterson v. Stancliff’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 2 U.S.C. § 190G
Relies on Eaton v. Hobson · Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · Smith v. Resor · George W. Sohm v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury · United States ex rel. Brooks v. Clifford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“apathy (lack of appropriate interest), defective attitudes, and inability to expend effort constructively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baldwin v. Cram
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.