Cooper v. Passmore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Mechanics' liens are acquired under the statute by the performance of labor, not by the breach of a contract to perform labor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pitts v. Ahlswede