Matthews v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Geary v. Geary (1936), State v. Hudson County News Co. (1961)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Plymouth Coal Company v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania T · Wadley Southern Railway Company v. State of Georgia · Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati · State v. Gerhardt
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wives and children of absconding husbands who have property within the state, therefore, have this new and additional remedy. The property may be seized and held by the sequestration order, subject to the further provision of the court.””
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.