Mastriano v. Blyer’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Commerce Insurance v. Ultimate Livery Service, Inc. (2008), 365 F. Supp. 2d 6 - Gomes v. University of Maine System (2005)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 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 H. R. Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co. · Champagne v. Mid-Maine Medical Center · Corey v. Norman, Hanson & DeTroy · Searles v. Trustees of St. Joseph's College · Stanton v. University of Maine System
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A common carrier owes its passengers a duty that requires the exercise of the highest degree of care compatible with the practical operation of the machine in which the conveyance was undertaken. This heightened standard of care continues until the carrier has given its pas senger a reasonably safe discharge at a reasonably safe location.”
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.