Patterson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2016
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payton v. New York · Brown v. Illinois · Steagald v. United States · Taylor v. Kentucky
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You shall find the defendant not guilty unless you are satisfied from the evidence-alone, and beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is guilty.”
1 later decision 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.