State v. Thomas H. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Gooding v. Wilson · Deal v. United States · Lewis v. City of New Orleans · State v. Grayhurst
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is a virtual truism that all language is understandable only in context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.