Matson v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Carr v. Bett (1998), Nastro v. D'Onofrio (2003)
34 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Durfee v. Duke · Fauntleroy v. Lum · Morris v. Jones · Dent Ex Rel. Dent v. Casaga · 67 Ill. App. 3d 914 - Thompson v. Safeway Enterprises, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'lack of personal or subject matter jurisdiction of the rendering court, fraud in procurement (extrinsic), satisfaction, lack of due process, or other grounds that make a judgment invalid or unenforceable.' ” Id. at 120 , 666 A.2d at 1312 (quoting Matson v. Matson, 333 N.W.2d 862, 867 (Minn.1983)). While the Court of Special Appeals was correct that a filed foreign judgment does not become a Maryland judgment”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“facilitate interstate enforcements of judgments by providing a summary procedure by which a judgment creditor may enforce the judgment in an expeditious manner in any jurisdiction in which the judgment debtor is found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A copy of any foreign judgment * * * may be filed in the office of the clerk of any district court of this state. The clerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of any district court or the supreme court of this state. A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a district court or the supreme court of this state and may be enforced and satisfied in like manner.”
2 later decisions 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.