694 So. 2d 55 - State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2016
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 State v. Webb · 547 So. 2d 613 - State v. Smith · 520 So. 2d 250 - State v. Pettis · 50 So. 2d 179 - Foley v. State Ex Rel. Gordon · 440 So. 2d 1277 - City of Boca Raton v. Gidman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be considered as a whole, including the evil to be corrected, the language of the act, including its title, the history of its enactment, and the state of the law already in existence bearing on the subject.”
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.