Mattare v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Department of Natural Resources v. Linchester Sand & Gravel Corp. (1975), County Council v. Investors Funding Corp. (1973)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 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 Borgnis v. Falk Co. · Taylor v. Commissioners of Perryville · Wardle v. Hudson · Gischell v. Ballman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Specialty by statute means some right or cause of action given, by statute which does not exist at common law. In such cases the nature or cause of action does not depend, in any degree, upon any contract relation. There is no original obligation whatever created by the act of the parties.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no provision in the Workmen's Compensation Law empowering the Commission to enforce its awards[.]”
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.