Patterson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 1001 · 1969
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1997
13 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 659 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Caminetti v. United States · Palmer v. Hoffman · Johnson v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence against Patterson came almost entirely from [an alleged accomplice].... It is well settled that such testimony can be the basis for a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Craig v. Singletary“(I)t is beyond dispute that a trial judge may take an active role in a trial to guarantee that substantial justice is done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ruiz v. Estelle“cannot be forced to occupy a passive position as moderator between the disputants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.