Matthews v. McDade’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably Kidd v. Borum (1913), Wilkerson v. Wilkerson (1935)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 Goodman v. Winter · McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Harrison v. Heflin · Deslonde & James v. Darrington's Heirs · Garrett v. Garrett
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reference must be so clear and distinct as that there can be no reasonable room for mistake of intention.”
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.