Garrison v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), United States v. Cepero (2000)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Carafas v. J · Nowakowski v. Maroney
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must then be afforded an opportunity to address the merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a district court grants a certificate of probable cause the court of appeals must ... proceed to a disposition of the appeal in accord with its ordinary procedure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in [these cases] prevents the courts of appeals from considering the questions of probable cause and the merits together, and nothing said there or here necessarily requires full briefing in every instance in which a certificate is granted. We hold only that where an appeal possesses sufficient merit to warrant a certificate, the appellant must be afforded adequate opportunity to address the merits, and that if a summary procedure is adopted the appellant must be informed by rule or otherwise, that his opportunity will be limited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barefoot v. Estelle
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.