State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2021
13 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 Schade v. State · Fields v. State · Wien Air Alaska v. Arant · State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Templeton · Hafling v. Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the basic nature and quality of his or her conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Otte · Doe v. Otte“appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Otte · Doe v. Otte“In summary, if we assume that three distinct classes of individuals are exempted from criminal responsibility under the A.L.I. test [former AS 12.45.083] first, those who were unable as a result of mental disease or defect to appreciate the nature and quality of their conduct; second, those who by virtue of mental disease or defect were unable to appreciate that their acts were wrong; and third, those who knew what they were doing and knew that it was wrong, but nevertheless were irresistibly impelled to perform the act only the first is now expressly exempt from criminal responsibility under Alaska law. The latter two categories are guilty but mentally ill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrett v. State
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.