State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Ford v. State (1882), People v. Willy (1921)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 State v. McDonnell · State v. Hooker · Cook v. Parham · Taylor v. Betsford
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The idea that is embodied in the expression that a man’s house is his castle, is not that it is his property, and, as such, he has the right to defend and protect it by .other and more extreme means than he might lawfully use to defend and protect his shop, his offices, or his barn. The sense in which the house has a peculiar immunity is, that it is sacred for the protection of his person and of Ms family. An assault on the house can be regarded as an assault on the person, only in case the purpose of such assault be injury to the person of the occupant or members of his family, and, in order to accomplish tMs, the assailant attacks the castle in order to reach the inmates. In this view, it is said and settled that, in such case, the inmate need not flee from his house in order to escape from being injured by the assailant, but he may meet him at the threshold, and prevent him from breaking in by means rendered necessary by the exigency; and upon the same ground and reason as one may defend himself from peril of life, or great bodily harm, by means fatal to the assailant, if rendered necessary by the exigency of the assault.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall 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.