Mathews v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably State v. Chaney (1969), State v. Marcks (1897)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At common law the accused was not permitted to testify in his own behalf. However false or malicious the charge might be his lips were sealed, and if the prosecutrix testified positively to the facts constituting the offense, and there was no evidence to the contrary, the courts held the evidence sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schmidt“down rules for testing the credibility of the principal witnesses, which are as applicable to-day in trials [for sexual assault] as when announced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Daniels
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.