102 Ind. App. 97 - Abrams v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1974
7 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
Relies on Holland v. Farrier · Better Homes Co. v. Hildebrand Hardware Co. · 99 Ind. App. 53 - National Brick Co. v. Russell · 87 Ind. App. 655 - Granite Improvement Co. v. O'Haver
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In order that a lien may attach to real estate for material used in a building erected thereon, it is necessary that such material should be furnished by the authority and direction of the owner, and something more than mere inactive consent on the part of such owner is necessary in order that such lien may be acquired against it’.” Abrams v. Silver (1936), 102 Ind. App. 97, 99 , 1 N.E. (2d) 286. See also Courtney v. Luce (1936) , 101 Ind. App. 622 , 200 N.E. 501 ; Natl. Brick Co. v. Bussell (1934), 99 Ind. App. 53 , 190 N.E. 614 ; Morgan v. Brightwood Lumber Co. (1937) , 104 Ind. App. 4 , 7 N. E. (2d) 525.”
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.