State v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (2009), 50 Ohio St. 2d 69 - Feliciano v. Kreiger (1977)
54 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search incident to arrest is not only an exception to the warrant requirement; it is also a reasonable search under the United States and Ohio Constitutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.