Masterson v. Stambuck’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably George v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc. (1999), McWhorter v. McWhorter (2001)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Board of Ed. of Central School Dist. No. 1 v. Allen · Tilton v. Richardson · Parish v. Pitts · Hercules Inc. v. Pledger · Conway Corp. v. Construction Engineers, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the organization's charter limits it to charitable or eleemosynary purposes; (2) whether the organization's charter contains a "not-for-profit" limitation; (3) whether the organization's goal is to break even; (4) whether the organization earned a profit; (5) whether any profit or surplus must be used for charitable or eleemosynary purposes; (6) whether the organization depends on contributions and donations for its existence; (7) whether the organization provides its services free of charge to those unable to pay; and (8) whether the directors and officers receive compensation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“all counties, municipal corporations, school districts, special improvement districts, and all other political subdivisions of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'illustrative, not exhaustive, and no one factor is dispositive.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Francis
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.