513 So. 2d 1257 - Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably 525 So. 2d 833 - Grossman v. State (1988), Rodriguez v. State (2006)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Booth v. Maryland · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independently weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether the death penalty or a sentence of life imprisonment should be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as the record reflects that the trial judge made the requisite findings at the sentencing hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Valle v. State“the responsibility to prepare a sentencing order”
1 later decision 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.