Matthews v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1951
3 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 Hair v. Goldsmith
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well to clear up a misapprehension in the minds of the bar as to the force of a decision of this court in eases in which the court is divided. A dissenting opinion shows that the case has been thoroughly considered. The opinions of the majority govern. When that question arises in future cases, the dissenting justice is as much bound by the decision of the majority as is the Justice who wrote the prevailing opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. Newmyer
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.