Mathis v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably People v. Gonzales (1983), People v. Taggart (1981)
2 federal appellate · 76 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 Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of California · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · 17 Ill. 2d 55 - The PEOPLE v. Allen · 21 Utah 2d 272 - State v. Criscola
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The nature of circumstantial evidence implies the weaving of a fabric of known facts, which may be inconsequential alone, but become important when they are tied to other facts which lead to inevitable conclusions as to facts in issue."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · Maes v. People“or he would be knocked off when he reached the penitentiary.”
1 later decision 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.