17 Mich. App. 48 - People v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1989
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere disbelief of a witness' testimony cannot serve to fill an evidentiary gap in the case; ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smart v. Leeke
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.