Fischer v. Mascarenas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Koenig v. Perez (1986), Jelso v. World Balloon Corp. (1981)
44 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe · Exnicious v. United States · Ute Park Summer Homes Ass'n v. Maxwell Land Grant Co. · Hewitt-Robins, Inc. v. Lea County Sand & Gravel, Inc.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence of Fischer, at its best, proves only that he has legal title. It does not rule out an inference that equitable title is in Mascarenas, and does not preclude an inference of mistaken description in the deed to persons in the Mascarenas chain of title from the common predecessor in title of the parties. Id. at 1161.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Summary judgment. . . cannot be substituted for a trial on the merits as long as one issue of material fact is still present in the case. The remedy should not be employed where there is the slightest doubt as to the existence of an issue of material fact. (Citations omitted.)”
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.