Matthews v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Sharon v. Sharon · Meadows v. Meadows · Finerty v. First Nat. Bank of Duncan · Williams v. Williams · Burrows v. Burrows
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o}rdinarily used to indicate an avoidance of; the abrogation of; or the lessening in value of, a right or other legal relationship or status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[where a divorce is granted and the property must be divided, the law enjoins that there be a complete severance of the common title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frantz v. Frantz“[t]he portion to be awarded each spouse should be free from the claims and domination of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. Crawford
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.