In re Mason’s Empirical Analysis
99 F. 256 · 1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1957
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Allen v. Thompson
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.
““Want of jurisdiction over the subject-matter may be taken advantage of at any time, and it may be collaterally attacked; but, where the objection goes merely to want of jurisdiction of the person or thing, there may be a waiver of the objection or restriction as to the manner and time of making it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Gillette
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.