Mathews v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Sofka v. Thal (1983), Warrem v. Parrish (1969)
25 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 Downey v. United Weatherproofing, Inc. · Zuber v. Clarkson Construction Co. · Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts · Swon v. Huddleston · Lolordo v. Lacy
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have no occasion here to construe that section, nor shall we do so. We merely call attention to it. It was ignored in Frech, supra, but it was discussed later in Stark. The proper time and place will come for an adequate construction of the section, but this case presents neither, for this appeal does not arise from probate action or assumed probate jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We hold that this is a suit in equity . to establish and enforce a trust, and •that the Circuit Court had inherent jurisdiction; also, that the petition properly stated a claim. It may be that the Probate Court would have the power to do the same things in a discovery proceeding under the existing Code, contrary to what has so long been declared. We do not so decide here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equity Jurisdiction in Probate Matters Under the New Code,”
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.