Matthews v. Correa’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 534 · 1943
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1976 · most notably Harris v. United States (1947), Davis v. United States (1946)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States · Wilson v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The line between fruit of the crime itself and mere evidence thereof may be narrow; perhaps this turns more on the good faith of the search than the actual distinction between the matters turned up. In any event, the articles in question are more than evidential; they are the very things withheld.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * And the Attorney has shown reasonable grounds for the conclusion that these books, though dealing in part with matters subsequent to the bankruptcy, did properly concern matters with which the trustee was concerned.””
1 later decision 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.