Matheney v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2022
22 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 857
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Edelman v. Jordan · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the misconduct is 'flagrant', or if each of the following three conditions is satisfied: (1) proof of defendant's guilt is not overwhelming; (2) defense counsel objected; and (3) the trial court failed to cure the error with a sufficient admonishment to the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A person is guilty of manufacturing methamphetarnine when he knowingly and unlawfully... [w]ith intent to manufacture methamphetamine possesses two (2) or more chemicals or two (2) or more items of equipment for the manufacture of methamphetamine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pate v. Commonwealth“that one must possess two or more chemicals or items of equipment with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine to fall within the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Pate v. Commonwealth
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.