Patterson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2005
most recently cited
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2005
5 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Taylor v. Louisiana · Alexander v. Louisiana · Tinsley v. Commonwealth · Brewer v. Commonwealth
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.