Mason v. Haile’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 370 · 1827
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1981 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977)
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Olney v. Arnold
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Imprisonment of the debtor . . .• may be allowed as a means of inducing him to perform his contract; but a State may refuse to inflict this punishment, . . . and leave the contract in full force. Imprisonment is no part of the contract, and simply to release the prisoner does not impair its obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tennessee v. Sneed
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.