Clapp v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 589 · 1876
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1945 · most notably United States v. Anderson (1926), Knowlton v. Moore (1900)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““when the successor or any person in his right or his behalf should become' entitled in possession to his succession, or to the receipt of the income or profits thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is manifest that the right does not accrue until the duty can .be demanded, that is, when it is made payable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Sargent
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.