Mason v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1960
8 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 Robinson v. Dryden
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a father strips himself of everything he owns that is subject to execution, in the face of a suit pending against him and about to be tried, and conveys his property to his son in alleged payment of a very vague and uncertain claim for services that have been rendered to him by his son years before, it is a fair circumstance to be construed in determining the tona fides of the conveyance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Ott
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.