Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2007
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cherry v. State · Holland v. State · Brightman v. State · Holley v. Mount Vernon Mills, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An offense is considered a second or subsequent offense, if, prior to his conviction of the offense, the offender has at any time been convicted under this article....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. State · Waiters v. State
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.