Patterson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1982
8 federal appellate · 9 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · DeYoung v. DeYoung · Baldwin v. Baldwin · 28 Cal. 2d 276 - Colbert v. Colbert · Howell v. Howell
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prior dissolution of the marriage is ... a complete defense to ... an action (for legal separation).”
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.