Mason v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 1546 · 1991
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 36 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Phelps v. Hamilton (1997), Hurley v. Atlantic City Police Department (1999)
82 federal appellate · 36 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Quern v. Jordan · Arizona v. California · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, 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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]hen a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“only if the evidence points but one way and is susceptible to no reasonable inference which may support the opposing party's position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A punitive damage claim is not an independent cause of action or issue separate from the balance of a plaintiff's case.”
3 later decisions 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.