495 So. 2d 112 - Patrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2019
9 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 Bush v. State · 345 So. 2d 325 - Smith v. State · 353 So. 2d 542 - Beckley v. State · 455 So. 2d 285 - Swint v. State · Ex parte State ex rel. Attorney General
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Because of the language and communication difficulties of an underage victim, more than a few cases have dealt with the matter of proving what was formerly referred to as a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Seales v. State · Seales v. State““(a) A male commits the crime of rape in the first degree if: [[Image here]] “(3) He, being 16 years or older, engages in sexual intercourse with a female who is less than 12 years old.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seales v. State“A male commits the crime of rape in the first degree if ... [h]e engages in sexual intercourse with a female by forcible compulsion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd 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.