Michael v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Yaselli v. Goff (1926), Wallace v. State (1927)
5 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 In re Quarles · Vogel v. Gruaz · Ball v. Rawles · Worthington v. Scribner · Heyne v. . Blair
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is some conflict on the subject, but the great preponderance of authority favors the view that the question of what facts are sufficient to constitute probable cause is one of unmixed law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunnington v. Loeser““Where the facts are disputed, it must be left to the jury to determine what the facts are; but the court should instruct what facts amount to probable cause for an arrest and what do not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunnington v. Loeser
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.