Patterson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blakely v. Washington · Heck v. Humphrey · 43 Cal. 4th 885 - Yount v. City of Sacramento · Gibson v. Trant · State Ex Rel. Departments of Transportation & Labor v. Enserch Alaska Construction, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutional issue presents a question of law which we review de novo, and to which we apply our independent judgment.”
1 later decision 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.