Mason v. Lister’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 343 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Hamm v. County (1985), Lusardi v. Xerox Corp. (1987)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Eisenstadt v. Baird · United States Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o judgment by default shall be entered against the United States or an officer or agency thereof unless the claimant establishes his claim or right to relief by evidence satisfactory to the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing in this record to indicate that this plan is a subterfuge to evade the purposes of the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An employee who is separated from the service ... voluntarily, during a period when the agency in which he is employed is undergoing a major reduction in force, ... after completing 25 years of service or after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of service is entitled to an annuity.”
1 later decision 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.