State v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Ex Parte Thompson (1933), Braverman v. Bar Assn. of Balto. (1956)
3 district · 24 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 Parkersburg v. Brown · Pollard v. Lyon · Spring Company v. Knowlton · Birch v. Benton · Lessee of Irvin v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record of his conviction is made conclusive evidence thereof, so that the production of such record established his guilt in the disbarment proceedings. The court may, however, go behind the record for the purpose of determining upon the extent or severity of the punishment to be administered.”
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.