Haffin v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 671 · 1872
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1952
13 federal appellate · 1 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a ministerial officer, in a case in which it is his duty to act, cannot upon any principle of law be made a trespasser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harding v. Woodcock
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.