Mason v. Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 423 · 1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2015
2 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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 Dugan v. Rank · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] civil action against a federal official based on that person's official actions is 'a civil action commenced against the United States' under § 2401(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as provided by the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, every civil action commenced against the United States shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within six years after the right of action first accrues. The action of any person under legal disability or beyond the seas at the time the claim accrues may be commenced within three years after the disability ceases.”
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.