Mathiason v. St. Louis’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1933
8 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 Real Estate Saving Inst. v. Collonious · Boland v. Ross · Kidder v. Barr · Cheek v. City of Aurora · Kemp v. Mitchell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a defendant, in filing a cross-bill, attempts . . . to introduce new and distinct matter, not essential to the proper determination of the matter put in litigation by the original bill, although he may show a perfect case against either the complainant or one or more of his co-defendants, his pleading will not be a cross-bill but an original bill. And no decree can be rendered on such matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.