Patrick v. Sedwick’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Sard v. Hardy (1977), Wilson v. Scott (1967)
1 district · 26 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 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · United States v. Moore · Di Filippo v. Preston · 52 Wash. 2d 830 - Hoye v. Century Builders, Inc. · Bigler v. Richards
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) [Trial by] the Court. Issues not demanded for trial by jury as provided in Rule 38 shall be tried by the court; but notwithstanding the failure of a party to demand a jury . . ., the court in its discretion upon motion may order a trial by a jury of any or all issues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““to have described accurately and fully in his report of the operation everything of consequence that he did and which his trained eye observed during the operation.” ( 391 P.2d at 457 ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n civil cases where the amount in controversy exceeds two hundred fifty dollars, the right of trial by a jury of twelve is preserved to the same extent as it existed at common law.”
3 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.