Mason v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably El Chico Corp. v. Poole (1987), Ling v. Jan's Liquors (1985)
96 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Howlett v. Doglio · Pratt v. Daly · Howard v. Rogers · 92 Ohio App. 49 - Ramon v. Spike
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t defeats the real purpose of the enactment of the [dram shop] statute to twist it into an immunity bath for all other cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The proprietor of a business establishment wherein alcoholic beverages are dispensed for consumption upon the premises owes a duty to members of the public while they are in his place of business to exercise reasonable care to protect them from physical injury as a result of violent acts of third persons. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any individual who habitually drinks intoxicating liquor to excess.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vitek v. Wilcox
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.