Patterson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing appropriate safeguards to ensure that evidence is “unchanged and preserved for evidentiary use at the trial”
• discussing appropriate safeguards to ensure that evidence is “unchanged and preserved for evidentiary use at the trial”
• where “acquittal is dependent upon the identification of the substances as contraband, due process of law requires that analysis of the substance not be left completely within the province of the state”
• defendant charged with possession may have contraband examined

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

70 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 121×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-06· cited 111×
• Robert Dale Conklin v. Derrick Schofield
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-04-21· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-12· cited 86×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-11-28· cited 81×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-03-18· cited 66×
• Lingerfelt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-09-11· cited 54×
• Ely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-10· cited 43×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-07-01· cited 38×
• Harper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-12-04· cited 32×
• McAdoo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 31×
• Birge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-10-07· cited 31×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-04-24· cited 30×
• Duckworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 29×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-13· cited 28×
• State v. Blackwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-14· cited 27×
• Hartley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-06-19· cited 26×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-18· cited 25×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• State v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1972-12-19· cited 125×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-12-06· cited 58×
• State v. Migliore
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1972-03-27· cited 46×
• James v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-06-23· cited 44×
• Terrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 33×
• State v. Gaddis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-11-10· cited 32×
• Herrin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-05-21· cited 29×
• State v. Cloutier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-03-14· cited 24×
• Mobley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-10-25· cited 17×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-03-19· cited 16×
• Gilliland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-07-02· cited 8×
• People v. Spencer
  New York Supreme Court· 1974-09-12· cited 5×