Mason v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 67 · 1872
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1980 · most notably Vance v. Terrazas (1980), Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States (1926)
6 federal appellate · 2 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Much discussion of the case is certainly unnecessary, as it is as clear as any proposition of fact well can be, that the claimant voluntarily accepted the modification of the contract as suggested by the commissioners, and that he executed a new contract in its place, which he must have understood was intended to define the obligations of both parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Duress, if proved, may be a defence to an action . . . but the burden of proof to establish the charge . . . is upon the party making it. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vance v. Terrazas
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.