Guice v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably McDonald v. Richard (1943), Lemoine v. Lacour (1948)
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 Wells v. Blackman · Stokes v. Shackleford · City of New Orleans v. Riddell · Benton & Milliken v. Sentell · Fenn v. Rils
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.
“`Received of T. J. Guice, of DeSoto Parish, La., the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) in part payment of a certain 80-acre tract of land laying broadside with the 160-acre tract that he now lives on. This the 7th day of March, A.D., 1889. W. H. Mason.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chauvin v. Bohn“If property is sold by a vendor who has no title thereto, but who afterwards acquires title, the acquisition of title inures to the benefit of the vendee.”
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.