Matthews v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1973
13 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 Sproles v. Binford · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · State Board of Tax Com'rs of Indiana v. Jackson · Continental Baking Co. v. Woodring · The Delaware Railroad Tax Minot v. The Philadelphia Wilington and Baltimre Railroad Company
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That is all that is demanded by the equal protection clauseand nothing more could be demanded by the due process clauseof the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The case is governed by the simple rule that where a tax affects alike all persons similarly occupied, and all property in the same classification, there is no denial of the equal protection of the law.”
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.