Ex parte Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
July 1980
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Landry v. State · Minix v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““knowingly and intentionally with intent to defraud and harm another, forge, by passing to Stephen Papania, a writing which then and there purported to be but was not the authorized act of B. J. Harris, said writing being of the tenor following: (at this point, the indictment set out in its entirety the forged instrument) said defendant knowing the same to have been forged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross 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.