Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 308th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cain v. Bain · Greening v. Moran · Sumwalt v. Boice · Glover v. Texas General Indemnity Co. · Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Obligor] has not shown good cause why he should be exempt from making periodic payments as a self-employed individual.... [T]he judgment applies to current and future employers, covering the contingency that [obligor] will not always be self-employed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Cat
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.