Patterson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 1939 · most notably Levering v. Commonwealth (1909), Ratliff v. Commonwealth (1918)
39 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any person be convicted of either of the offenses described in the .five preceding sections, he shall ever afterwards be disqualified from giving-evidence in any judicial proceeding, or from being a witness in any case whatever. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The indictment must be presented by the foreman, in the presence of the grand jury, to. the court and filed with the clerk, and remain in his office as a public record,.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.