Patton v. Yount’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
882 federal appellate · 137 district · 764 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,643 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division (2003), United States v. Olano (1993)
882 federal appellate · 137 district · 764 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Irvin v. Dowd · Smith v. Phillips · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
Cited together with Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida · Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Witt · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 2,643 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant question is not whether the community remembered the case, but whether the jurors at [the accused's] trial had such fixed opinions that they could not judge impartially the guilt of the defendant.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is plainly one of historical fact: did a juror swear that he could set aside any opinion he might hold and decide the case on the evidence, and should the juror's protestation of impartiality have been believed.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is best suited to determine competency to serve impartially.”
30 later decisions 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.