Matthews v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1993
9 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 Week v. Big Bunker Hill Mining Corp. · Hall v. State · Mills v. State · Anderson v. State · Fellows v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the statute states that a new trial 'may be granted,’ this does not mean that in a proper case, where all the rules of law have been met, a new trial may or may not be granted, but on the contrary it means that in such a case a new trial must be granted. Werk v. Big Bunker Hill Mining Corp., 193 Ga. 217, 228 ( 17 SE2d 825 ).” Matthews v. Grace, 199 Ga. 400, 405 ( 34 SE2d 454 ). As was said in Austin v. State, 121 Ga. App. 244, 246 ( 173 SE2d 452 ):”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. State
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.