Mathews v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State ex rel. Dann v. Taft (2006), State Ex Rel. Newsome v. Alarid (1977)
4 federal appellate · 93 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 Amos v. Gunn · City & County of San Francisco v. Superior Court · 22 Cal. App. 2d 126 - People v. Purcell · 26 Cal. App. 2d 183 - Runyon v. Board of Prison Terms & Paroles · 9 Wash. 2d 347 - Steel v. Johnson
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“— A record “made by a public officer in pursuance of a duty, the immediate purpose of which is to disseminate information to the public, or to serve as a memorial of official transactions for public reference[;j” — A record that is required by law to be kept, or necessary to be kept in the discharge of a duty imposed by law or directed by law to serve as a memorial and evidence of something written, said or done; — A written record of transactions of a public officer in his office, which is a convenient and appropriate method of discharging his duties, and is kept by him as such, whether required by express provisions of law or not.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“... based on the conflict between the public’s right to openness in government, and important public policy considerations relating to protection of either the confidentiality of information, privacy of persons or a concern about disclosure detrimental to the best interests of the state. This has been the general basis for the common law rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“confidential or of such a nature that it would be against the best interests of the state to permit a disclosure of their contents.”
2 later decisions 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.