Mason v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2025
2 district · 7 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 16 Utah 2d 397 - Yergensen v. Ford · 26 Utah 2d 436 - Harmon v. Harmon · State ex rel. Commissioners of Land Office v. Whitfield · Larsen v. Larsen · Erie v. STATE, STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are in accord generally with the doctrine urged by defendant that the courts should be liberal in granting relief against judgments taken by default to the end that controversies may be tried on the merits. [4]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant had not tendered a meritorious defense to the plaintiff's complaint.”
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.