Mason v. Costanza’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Duncan v. State, Dept. of Transp. and Development (1993), 373 So. 2d 138 - Lytell v. Strickland Transp. Co., Inc. (1979)
30 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 Lawrence v. Penn Mut. Life Ins. · 40 La. Ann. 776 - Gunther v. New Orleans Cotton Exchange Mutual Aid Ass'n
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “It is clear that the purpose of section 33 of Act 20 of 1914, in providing for the maturity of all installments not yet payable upon the failure of the employer to pay six successive installments, was to visit a penalty upon the employer who willfully refused to pay.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““That in the event the employer against whom there has been rendered a judgment of Court awarding compensation in favor of any employee or his • dependent should become insolvent or fail to pay six successive installments as they become due, the installments not yet payable under said judgment shall immediately become due and exigible and the judgment shall become executory for the whole amount; provided, that if the employee or his dependent is adequately protected by insurance and receives payments thereunder this right shall not accrue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Forfeitures are not favored in law nor encouraged by the courts.””
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.