Mathis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.2d 703 · 1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Kirby v. United States (1973), Walters v. Secretary of Defense (1983)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Mathis v. United States · Mathis v. United States
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence is convincing that not only did the plaintiff not attempt to file a petition prior to September 26, 1966, but also that the plaintiff has used an altered document as evidence in support of his contention. 421 F.2d at 704 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mathis v. Laird
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.