George Wilson v. Richard Mason’s Empirical Analysis
5 U.S. 45 · 1801
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Western Mill & Lumber Co. v. Blanchard
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to expound (the words of a statute) so as to give some effect to the legislative will. Some latitude of construction, then, must be used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it must be considered as providing for the preservation of titles, not for the tribunals which should decide on those titles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Biddle
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.