Mason v. Sams’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.2d 255 · 1925
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2009
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Webster v. Fall · Heckman v. United States · United States v. Lineas Winans · United States v. Felipe Sandoval · Ray Jones v. Patrick Meehan
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a right to a common is the right of an individual of the community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Commissioner of Indian Affairs could enforce regulations made by him without tribal consent which required [tribe members] to pay a royalty for the fish they caught in reservation streams to be used by the Tribe for the care of the aged and destitute members of the Tribe and for general agency purposes.”
2 later decisions 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.