State v. Mattan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2009
2 district · 16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Harriss · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Nash v. United States · Rose v. Locke
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate fact here was the failure to exercise due care. The evidence was sufficient to support a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant failed to maintain a proper lookout.. The failure to maintain a proper lookout was a failure to exercise due care.... The definition of an act forbidden by statute, but not defined by it, may be ascertained by reference to the common law. [Citations omitted.] Due care is a well-understood term meaning the absence of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Merithew“exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Welch
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.