Patterson v. Haskins’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.3d 645 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Community Health Systems, Inc. (2007), United States v. Clay (2012)
15 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Coleman v. Thompson · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Burks 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Patterson v. Haskins, 470 F.3d 645 , 660-61 (6th Cir.2006) (The law-of-the-case doctrine “states that when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.”
2 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.