State v. Matavale’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Jess (2008), State v. Kikuta (2011)
68 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 Wisconsin v. Yoder · Allen v. United States · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · State v. Batson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test on appeal is not whether guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt, but whether there was substantial evidence to support the conclusion of the trier of fact.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was substantial evidence to support”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The force is employed with due regard for the age and size of the minor and is reasonably related to the purpose of safeguarding or promoting the welfare of the minor, including the prevention or punishment of the minor’s misconduct; and (b) The force used is not designed to cause or known to create a risk of causing substantial bodily injury, disfigurement, extreme pain or mental distress, or neurological damage.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Yokota · State v. KIKUTA
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.