Masterson v. Herndon’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 416 · 1870
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1960 · most notably Winters v. United States (1908), Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. (1924)
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“- “We do not attaeh importance to the technical mode of proceeding called summons and severance. We should have held this appeal good, if it had appeared- in any way by the record that Maverick had been notified in writing to appear, and that he had failed to appear, or, if appearing, had refused to join. But the mere allegation of his refusal, in the petition of appellant, does not prove this. We think there should he a written notice and due service, or the record should show his appearance and refusal, and that the court on that ground granted an appeal to the party who prayed for it, as to his own interest.””
9 later decisions 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.