Mason v. Nibel’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1995
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Aylesbury Mercantile Co. v. Fitch · Thorp Oil & Specialty Co. v. Home Oil Refining Co. · Bale v. Wright · Oklahoma Automobile Co. v. Benner · Dodd-Lear Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Gyr
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person by his representation and conduct induces another to believe in the existence of a particular state of facts, and the other acts thereon to his prejudice, the former is estopped, as against the latter, to deny the existence of such state of facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a party sues for conversion of his property, he must allege and prove that the property was taken or appropriated without his consent””
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.