State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Laime v. State (2001), State v. Beason (1973)
25 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 People v. Scofield · Bleiweiss v. State · People v. Bill · People v. Anderson · Williams v. Commonwealth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In charging the jury, the court must state to them all matters of law necessary for their information. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Puckett · State v. Freeman““ ‘Although it is not the duty of the court to give instructions to the jury upon specific points developed by the evidence unless such instructions are requested, it is nevertheless the duty of the court in criminal actions to give to the jury instructions on the general principles of law pertaining to the case on trial.’ ” State v. Patterson, supra, 60 Idaho at page 77 , 88 P.2d at page 497 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Puckett · State v. Eastman“Where ... the injury is the result of reckless, wanton and willful conduct, showing an utter disregard for the safety of others, the law imputes to the wrongdoer a willful and malicious intention even though he may not in fact have entertained such intention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.