Masterson v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
21 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 In re Estate of Soulard · Harris Banking Co. v. Miller · Atlantic National Bank v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · Kansas City Life Insurance v. Rainey · Northrip ex rel. Northrip v. Burge
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by evidence which is clear, unequivocal and convincing to the judicial mind and thus by more than a mere preponderance of the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.