State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. White (1995), State v. Hardy (1994)
143 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Estelle v. McGuire · Boyde v. California · Cage v. Louisiana · Watson 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is whether there is substantial evidence (1) of each essential element of the offense charged and (2) that defendant is the perpetrator of the offense.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he trial court must consider such evidence in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Substantial evidence is relevant evidence that a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.