United States v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 995 · 1974
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Patterson v. United States (1974), United States v. See (1974)
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Carroll v. United States · Beaufort Concrete Company v. Atlantic States Construction Company · Thompson v. United States · Wolfsohn v. Hankin · Ginsburg v. Stern
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he succession of superficially innocent events had proceeded to the point where a prudent man could say to himself that an innocent course of conduct was substantially less likely than a criminal one.”
10 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.