Mathias v. O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1990 · most notably Anchor Milling Co. v. Walsh (1891), State v. Casey (1923)
33 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 Chouteau v. Allen · Lenox v. Harrison · Chapman v. McIlwrath · Snell v. Harrison · Ferris v. Thaw
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the memory of a witness is defective concerning an act which it is of importance to prove as having occurred at a particular time, or under certain circumstances, it would seem that his custom to do that act at the time or under the circumstances alleged should be of weight in raising an inference that the act was then performed, and evidence of the habit ought therefore to be allowed. ’ ’”
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.