Matias v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
February 2024
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Taylor v. United States · Cross v. United States · United States v. Gordon · State v. Okumura
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a rigid rule of law that, so long as a defendant is in custody, the right to be present at the trial can only be waived in open court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Janis
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.