Patton v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2009
12 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 Reynolds v. Stockton · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission · Krasnov v. United States · United States v. Krasnov · Smith v. Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An application to the court for an order shall be by motion which, unless made during a hearing or trial, shall be made in writing, shall state with particularity the grounds therefor, ... and shall set forth the relief or order sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keeler v. Keeler
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.