Matthews v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1999
12 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 Norman v. Baltimore & or · Nueslein v. District of Columbia · Coleman, Auditor v. Hurst · Meredith, Atty. Gen. v. Kauffman · James v. Cammack
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It seems to us that it is becoming increasingly necessary to construe Section 246 in a way which will enable the General Assembly to keep the salaries of Circuit Judges, and for that matter all constitutional officers, currently geared to the purchasing power of the dollar as compared to its purchasing power in 1949. * * * “Let us see what the Legislature has done in the instant case * * * “* * * In other words, the legislature has interpreted ‘adequate compensation’ * * * “ * * * This is a clear instance of legislative care and responsibility. “As the determiner of adequate compensation the Legislature has the power to balance the consistency of Section 133 with Section 246 * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Each regular commonwealth’s attorney shall be, ex officio, a special prosecutor of the commonwealth, and as such shall perform such duties and render such services, at such time and places, coextensive with the commonwealth as may be required by the attorney general. The duties and services may include, but are not limited to, prosecution of or participation in action outside of his judicial district when directed by the attorney general in preparation and presentation of the commonwealth’s position in criminal cases appealed to the Court of Appeals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No public officer ... shall receive as compensation per annum for official services ... any amount in excess of the following sums: Officers whose jurisdiction or duties are coextensive with the Commonwealth ... and Judges and Commissioners of the Court of Appeals, Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000); Circuit Judges, Eight Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($8,400); and all other public officers, Seven Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($7,200).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. McClendon
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.