Patterson v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
374 federal appellate · 83 district · 771 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,590 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Murray v. United States (1988), Minnick v. Mississippi (1990)
374 federal appellate · 83 district · 771 state decisions — followed in 47 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · United States v. Wade · Edwards v. Arizona
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Michigan v. Jackson · Edwards v. Arizona · Johnson v. Zerbst · Brewer v. Williams
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 1,590 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a specific warning on the record of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation is not an absolute necessity in every case if the record shows that the defendant had this required knowledge from other sources.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As a general matter ... an accused who is admonished with the warnings prescribed by this Court in Miranda has been sufficiently apprised of the nature of his Sixth Amendment right, and of the consequences of abandoning those rights, so that his waiver on this basis will be considered a knowing and intelligent one.””
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]reserving the integrity of an accused's choice to communicate with police only through counsel is the essence of Edwards and its progeny.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.