Mattox v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
146 U.S. 140 · 1892
Citation profile
987 federal appellate · 87 district · 641 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,263 later decisions (67 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Pointer v. Texas (1965), Dutton v. Evans (1970)
987 federal appellate · 87 district · 641 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 The United States v. Thomas Reid and Edward Clements · Newcomb v. Wood · Woodward v. Leavitt · Henderson v. Moore
Cited together with Remmer v. United States · McDonald v. Pless · Parker v. Gladden · Turner v. Louisiana · Smith v. Phillips
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 2,263 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the power to disturb the express conclusions of twelve.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rivate communications, possibly prejudicial, between jurors and third persons, or witnesses, or the officer in charge, are absolutely forbidden, and invalidate the verdict, at least unless their harmlessness is made to appear.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free from external causes tending to disturb the exercise of deliberate and unbiassed [sic] judgment.”
14 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.