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Digging through the TC List archives, I found Maurice Robinson on June 21,
1996, asking for statistics of patristic citations:
 
>From within a Byzantine-priority perspective, readings which are
dually-shared by both the Byzantine and any other texttype are simply
Byzantine readings from which the other texttype(s) happened not to
depart.  Once this point is granted, and once patristic idiosyncracies are
discounted, I have little doubt that one will find the non-Egyptian
fathers preceding the fourth century to be far more "Byzantine" in overall
character than otherwise has traditionally been claimed.

>Bring on the statistics, gentlemen.....

I did some more digging and found some interesting statistics of patristic
citations. The source is Wilbur Pickering, adapted from Kurt Aland. They
are taken from Pickering's review of Kurt Aland's article "The Text of the
Church":

			Egyp	Both	Maj	Other	# Pass

Marcion (160?)		23% 	10% 	18% 	49% 	94 
Irenaeus (d. 202)	16% 	16.5% 	16.5% 	51% 	181 
Clement Alex. (d. 215)	13.5% 	29% 	15% 	42.5% 	161 
Origen (d. 254)		16.5% 	28% 	17% 	38.5% 	459 
Hippolytus (d.235)	14.5% 	18% 	21% 	46.5% 	
Methodius (280?) 	12.5% 	31% 	19% 	37.5% 	32 
Adamantius (d.300)	11.5% 	21% 	31% 	36.5% 	29 
Asterius (d.341)		0% 	40% 	50% 	10% 	30 
Apst. Const. (380?)	3% 	33% 	41% 	23% 	46 
Epiphanius (d.403)	11% 	30% 	22% 	37% 	114 
Chrysostom (d. 407)	2% 	38% 	40.5% 	19.5% 	915 
Severian (d.408)		3% 	37% 	30% 	30% 	91 
Theod. Mops. (d. 428)	4.5% 	29% 	39% 	27.5% 	28 
Marcus Erem. (d. 430) 	5.5% 	35% 	35% 	24.5% 	37 
Hesychius (d. 450)	3.5% 	37.5% 	33% 	26.5% 	84 
Theodotus (d. 445)	3% 	37.5% 	37.5% 	22% 	16 
Theodoret (d. 466)	1% 	41% 	42% 	16% 	481 
John Damascus (d. 749)	2% 	40% 	40% 	18% 	63

Obviously, something happenned in the fourth century; the question is what
was it. Several explanations have been advanced, from an official Byzantine
recension, to the textual effects of the Arian controversy, to wider
collation of MSS after the Edict of Milan.

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