Hammond v. Darlington’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Brooks v. Railway Co. · De Witt v. Smith · Leonard v. Sparks · Wendover v. Baker · Landau v. Cottrill
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`All mechanic's liens commence at the date of the first stroke of the axe or spade, and continue in the erection of the house without regard to the time of their being filed, or of the doing of the work or furnishing the materials. The man who does the last of the painting or plumbing comes in pari passu with him who built the foundation wall.'”
2 later decisions 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.