Matthews v. Looney’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Padilla v. LaFrance (1995), Kennedy v. Hyde (1984)
5 federal appellate · 71 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 Wyss v. Bookman
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary that a judgment by consent is one [sic] the terms of which are settled and agreed upon by the parties, and which is entered of record by the sanction and authorization of the court. It is of course essential that the parties themselves agree upon all of the terms and provisions, and the court has no power to supply terms, provisions, or essential details not previously agreed to by the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On July 13, 1935, trial was had upon the motion to enter judgment. Much testimony, consisting largely of that of interested attorneys, was taken. This testimony appears to have related almost altogether to negotiations and discussions between attorneys prior to the announcement in court, and for some months thereafter. From this testimony it appears that the court manifestly was trying the question of whether or not there had ever been an agreement reached by the parties, and was attempting to reach a conclusion as to the terms of the agreement which they had actually made.... On one or more points the evidence of the attorneys was contradictory and conflicting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennedy v. Hyde“To constitute an enforceable agreement for judgment, there should be left nothing for adjustment between the parties relating to the subject-matter of the agreement. Until-all the terms of a final judgment have been definitely agreed upon by all parties and those terms either reduced to writing or placed of record, as required by [District Court Rule 47, the predecessor of Rule 11], we think the court was without power to render a judgment by agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reppert v. Beasley
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.