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← 336 SO2D 643 - Matthews v. State

Matthews v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1978
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Watts v. United States · United States v. Quinn · Porth v. Templar · Watts v. United States · 287 So. 2d 24 - Resnick v. State

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “consciously embraced fear of bodily injury as an instrument of enforcing otherwise lawful demands.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in one hand and slapped in the palm of the other under the noses of deputies on the scene;”
    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.