State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2006
4 federal appellate · 7 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 State v. McClain
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant was prejudiced by not having this information. In making this observation we are not questioning the sufficiency of the confession to support the verdict once the jury believes the testimony as to the confession. We are, rather, looking at what may have influenced the jury to accept the testimony as to the confession in the first place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker“That Woodcox made a deal with the prosecutor is clearly important in judging his credibility and the jury was entitled to hear about it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker“credibility as a witness was ... a significant issue in the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker
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.