William Mason v. Blaireau’s Empirical Analysis
1804
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably American Dredging Co. v. Miller (1994), The Belgenland (1885)
52 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 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 Succession of Wedderburn · Cartwright v. Denny · Edsall v. Brooks · Lenoir v. Kain
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Let precisely the same service, at precisely the same hazard, [b]e rendered at sea, and a very ample reward will be bestowed in the courts of justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a very ample compensation for those services, (one very much exceeding the mere risk encountered, and labour employed in effecting them)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 01-2227
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.