Mason v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Edmunds (1991), State v. Gutierrez (1993)
27 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 United States v. Leon · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search warrant shall not authorize the person executing it to search any dwelling house in the nighttime unless the judge, justice of the peace or magistrate is satisfied that it is necessary in order to prevent the escape or removal of the person or thing to be searched for, and then the authority shall be expressly given in the warrant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Caldwell v. State“the declaration of rights, in the separate states, are no security” since federal laws are supreme. Id. at 327 , reprinted in 1 B. Schwartz, The Bill of Rights: A Documentary History 444. Mason v. State, Del.Supr., 534 A.2d 242 at 246 n. 8 (1987). In response to Mason’s concern, another delegate to the Philadelphia convention, Roger Sherman, argued that a federal Bill of Rights was unnecessary because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Claudio v. State“A search warrant shall not authorize the person executing it to search any dwelling-house in the night time, unless the magistrate, or justice, shall be satisfied that it is necessary in order to prevent the escape, or removal, of the person, or things, to be searched for; and then the authority shall be expressly given in the warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hanna v. State
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.