Mason v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Mozley v. Prestwould Board of Directors (2002), 58 Va. App. 435 - Taylor v. Commonwealth (2011)
31 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 Brown v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Commonwealth · 353 F. Supp. 1050 - Kelly v. Cox
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.
“[U]se of the word ‘jurisdiction’ in the summary title is not controlling. The summary title is not part of the body of the statute____”). At most,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under the misdemeanor statute or the felony statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.