Matthews v. Densmore’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 216 · 1883
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan (1884), Roland v. Ew Phillips (1994)
21 federal appellate · 9 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · Freeman v. Howe · Buck v. Colbath · Grignon's Lessee v. Astor · John Voorhees v. James Jackson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have a writ which is fair on its face, issued from a court which had jurisdiction both of the parties and of the subject-matter of the suit in which it was issued, and which was issued in the regular course of judicial proceeding by that court, and which the officer of the court in whose hands it was placed is bound to obey,”
2 later decisions 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.