Commonwealth v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jones (1974), Commonwealth v. Milliken (1973)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 128 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Johnson 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n this connection, we note that several courts have ruled that where the items to be seized are as precisely identified as the nature of the activity permits and an exact description is virtually impossible, the searching officer is only required to describe the general class of the item he is seeking.” (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The case law is clear that when a person is an admitted participant in a crime, and the police attempt to secure a warrant upon the information received from him, the second aspect of the Supreme Court’s test is met, since the fact that the individual admits participation in the crime insures his reliability.” (Cases cited.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Moreover, his recitation of the manner in which the crime was committed was corroborated by the police investigation, since it was clear that a murder had been committed and it occurred as a result of stab wounds, as the informer stated, leading to the conclusion he had first-hand information.” Matthews, supra, at 71-72 .”
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.