Patterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2008
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Pavone v. State · Kremer v. State · Bryan v. State · Love v. State · Brackens 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a prosecution for an offense is barred unless it is commenced: (1) within five (5) years after the commission of a Class B, Class C, or Class D felony; or (2) within two (2) years after the commission of a misdemeanor. (b) A prosecution for murder or a Class A felony may be commenced at any time. (c) A prosecution for the following offenses is barred unless commenced before the date that the alleged victim of the offense reaches thirty-one (81) years of age: (1) IC 85-428-4-8(a) (Child molest ing).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace 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.