Mastad v. Brethren’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Sylvester v. Northwestern Hospital of Minneapolis (1952), Connolly v. Nicollet Hotel (1959)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. v. Brackett · Mullan v. Wisconsin Central Co. · Swinfin v. Lowry
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * All who engage in a public business of that nature are bound to protect their guests, both in person and property, from acts and misconduct of wrongdoers permitted to remain upon the premises; and the rules of law applicable to the common carrier are applicable alike to them.”
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.