Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1987
14 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 20 Ill. 2d 331 - The PEOPLE v. Embry · 155 Cal. App. 2d 347 - People v. Flores · People v. Bagley · 169 Tex. Crim. 502 - Davila v. State · 164 Tex. Crim. 257 - Orosco v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2. Possession of marijuana may be proved by circumstantial evidence. 3. The fact that defendant was charged jointly with other persons; and there was evidence that he was under the influence of marijuana at the time of his arrest, along with the circumstantial evidence, are elements to support the rule as stated above.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. State““In prosecution for Unlawful Possession of Marihuana, where parties jointly possess drugs, the fact that possession is not exclusive is not a bar to conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill 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.