Mason v. Southern New England Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists of Town of South Lancaster Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
9 district · 6 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · McDonald v. Massachusetts General Hospital · Adams v. Buffalo Forge Co. · 399 F. Supp. 1106 - In Re Air Crash Disaster at Boston, Massachusetts on July 31, 1973 · McKay v. Morgan Memorial Cooperative Industries & Stores, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall not constitute a defense to any cause of action based on tort brought against a corporation . . . that said corporation ... is or at the time the cause of action arose was a charity; provided, that if the tort was committed in the course of any activity carried on to accomplish directly the charitable purposes of such corporation . . . liability in any such cause of action shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars . . . Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the liability of charitable corporations . . . shall not be subject to the limitations set forth in this section if the tort was committed in the course of activities primarily commercial in character . . .”
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.