Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Wright v. State (1992), Brown v. State (1998)
27 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Marion · United States v. Cerro · Dorsey v. State · Ware v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even where a charge is brought within the statute of limitations, the particulars of the case may reveal that undue delay and resultant prejudice constitute a violation of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rita and her sister, Patty, had been fighting over a doll at the top of the stairway in their house when Rita either fell down the stairs or was pushed by Patty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial does not apply here, as the delay did not occur after arrest or indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.