Mathis v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2002
7 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 Dailey v. Houston · Carter v. Ford · Cox v. Kyle
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] ... a sale of the lands, or any part thereof, will better promote the interest of all parties than a partition in kind, or [2] if the court be satisfied that an equal division cannot be made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“considerable flexibility in dividing the property between the parties in a partition suit.”
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.