Mast v. Sapp.’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Shearin v. Lloyd (1957), Jewell v. Price (1965)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Ridley v. Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad · Hocutt v. Wilmington & Weldon R. R. · Eller v. Railroad · Spilman v. Roanoke Navigation Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the right of the party is once violated, even in ever so small a degree, the injury, in the technical acceptation of that term, at once springs into existence and the cause of action is complete.”
4 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.