Harris v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 211 N.C. App. 343 - Piraino Bros. v. Atlantic Financial Group, Inc. (2011), Lennie v. Profile Products, LLC (2007)
119 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
Applies 31 U.S.C. § 5112 (Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985) · 36 U.S.C. § 302
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Everson v. Board of Education · Reynolds v. States · Frisby v. Schultz
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review Rule 12(b)(1) motions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction de novo and may consider matters outside the pleadings.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, there is no right of immediate appeal from interlocutory orders and judgments.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause a church's religious doctrine and practice affect its understanding of each of these concepts.”
4 later decisions 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.