Garrison v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 696 · 1969
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1995
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second issue heretofore considered by this court relates to the procedure used to determine appellant’s sanity wherein the insanity issue was tried simultaneously with the murder charge. Bell v. Patterson [ 402 F.2d 394 (C.A.10, 1968)] determined the issue of a two part trial not being required as a matter of constitutional law . . . .” 405 F.2d at 697 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.