Mason v. Stock’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
4 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although [Plaintiff's] conviction was later overturned, at minimum, the Municipal Court Judge felt there were facts sufficient to convict Plaintiff of 'disorderly conduct.' " Doc. 5 at 8. Although not cited by Defendant, the Court acknowledges decisions of other judges of this Court finding that under Kansas law, "the conviction of the accused by a magistrate or trial court, although reversed by an appellate tribunal, conclusively establishes the existence of probable cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Youngblood v. Qualls
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.