Masterson v. Little’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company (1972), Mabee v. McDonald (1915)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No * * * estoppel can arise without proof of wrong, on one side, and injury suffered or apprehended, on the other, nor unless the injury be so clearly connected with the wrong that it might and ought to have been foreseen by the guilty party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Silverman v. Harmon““include every agreement by which one promises to alienate an existing interest in land upon a consideration, either good or valuable.””
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.