Mattern v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Coleman v. State (1976), Ravin v. State (1975)
32 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 · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[when one officer furnishes evidence to another officer which leads to an arrest, the state must prove the reasonable basis of the former officer's information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Prater · Miller v. State“"We conclude, therefore, that incarceration in a penal institution would not only be inappropriate in Mattern's case but might even aggravate his present difficulties, making the eventual reintegration of the defendant into the community more difficult."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. State“[t]he twin goals of penal administration in Alaska, reformation of the offender and the need to protect the public”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. State
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.