Matthews v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 851 - Galvan v. Superior Court (1969), BURTON v. Sills (1968)
79 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Miller · Batchelor v. State · People v. Brown · Greencastle Township v. Black · Powers v. Hurst
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant further asserts that the Firearms Act violates Art. 1, § 32 of the Indiana Constitution which provides that ‘The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State,’ because it restricts the right of the people to bear arms for their own defense. ****** “The Legislature has the power, in the interest of public safety and welfare, to provide reasonable regulations for the use of firearms which may be readily concealed, such as pistols . . .” ****** “The provisions of § 10-4736, supra, do not restrict nor prohibit appellant or any other person from having a pistol in his home or ‘fixed place of business’ for the defense of himself and the State. Neither does such Act attempt to restrict or prohibit the use of firearms other than pistols, as they are defined in § 1 of the Act. “Article 1, § 32, supra, does not say that the people shall have a right to bear pistols, or any other specific kind or type of arms. “Since, under the Act here under consideration, people may carry pistols in their homes and fixed places of business, without a license, and other kinds and types of firearms any place, we are unable to see wherein it contravenes any of the provisions of Art. 1, § 32 of the Indiana Constitution.” (Citations and footnotes omitted.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schubert v. DeBard“a person shall not carry a handgun in any vehicle or on or about his person, except in his dwelling, on his property or fixed place of business, without a license”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.