Matthews v. Zane’s Empirical Analysis
20 U.S. 164 · 1822
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1990 · most notably McElrath v. United States (1880), Taylor v. Brown (1893)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 M'Clung v. Silliman · Arnold v. The United States · Smith v. The State of Maryland at the Instance and for the Use of Carroll and Maccubbin · The King v. Haas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a statute for the- commencement of which no time is fixed, commences from its date;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Brown
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.