Patterson v. Vincent’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Layton v. Allen (1968), Canaday v. Superior Court (1955)
7 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 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 Bodne v. Austin · McClees v. Cohen · Lewis v. Pawnee Bill's Wild West Co. · Menefee v. Alexander · Klingbeil v. Saucerman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the Act here involved is in no way concerned with the form of action that is brought. ... On its face, it plainly covers all actions for the recovery of damages upon a claim for personal injuries.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In those instances where our present rule is exactly the same as the Federal rule, it is desirable to follow the interpretation placed upon it by the Federal Courts, especially where those Courts have been so nearly unanimous in their rulings, unless some good reason appears for adopting a contrary construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoffman v. Cohen““Under the express wording of this statute, it makes no difference whether a claim for malpractice is based upon a breach of contract or upon negligence, nor does it matter whether the plaintiff has an election between the two forms of action.””
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.