Mattingly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 1975 · most notably Everhart v. State (1975), Walters v. Commonwealth (1923)
47 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 Youman v. Commonwealth · Rose v. State · State v. Doremus · Colley v. Commonwealth · Lowrey v. Gridley
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the latter evidence was competent, it is doubtful whether that which was given, but afterwards excluded, and which was much more conclusive and convincing, so influenced the jury as to render the judgment erroneous. But whether so or not, the witnesses who looked through the window and thereby Obtained the information which the court declined to exclude, were at the time engaged in searching defendant’s tenant house located in an inclosure not far from his residence, and the search may be made from the outside of the house as well as by going into it. In other words we mean to say that the officers were wrongfully upon-the premises of appellant and wrongfully searching his possessions at the very time -they looked through the window and obtained the information which is now claimed to be competent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation. ’ ’”
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.