Thomas v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
60
cited by 60 later decisions
5
cited 5 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
December 1995
most recently cited
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably Bell v. State of Maryland (1964), Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co. (1962)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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.