State v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2014
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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Procunier v. Martinez · United States v. Lee · Stroud v. United States · Haerr v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The . . . letter was delivered to the jailer unsealed and unstamped—a circumstance which we believe corroborates the state’s assertion that defendant knew his outgoing mail would be read. There is no evidence that defendant did not know of tins procedure. Here ... no search was involved.Since tire letter was delivered to the jailer unsealed and with knowledge that it would be read, defendant has no claim of any invasion of privacy. There is no evidence of trickery or deceitful practices. Defendant voluntarily wrote tire letter knowing it would be read. Under such circumstances it cannot be said that the state gained access to the contents of the letter by search and seizure.” 217 Kan. at 657-58 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burnett
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.