Matthews v. Huwe’s Empirical Analysis
269 U.S. 262 · 1925
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1986 · most notably Tumey v. State of Ohio (1927), Van Huffel v. Harkelrode (1931)
8 federal appellate ·
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 Hyde v. United States · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Crovo · Norfolk Suburban Turnpike Company v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Stratton v. Stratton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one of those not infrequent cases in which decision of the merits of the case also determines jurisdiction. The petition was dismissed, not because the court was really without jurisdiction, for it could have taken it, but because the question was regarded as frivolous, which is a different thing from finding that the petition was not in character one which the Court could consider.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.