112 Ind. App. 195 - Beeson v. Overpeck’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2004
16 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 Moore-Mansfield Construction Co v. Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Railway Co. · Indianapolis Northern Traction Co. v. Brennan · Stryker v. . Cassidy · Cain v. Rea
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“''The language of our statute is general in its terms, and, in our opinion embraces all persons who perform 'any labor.. We are unable to draw the distinction between one who puts his labor into plans for the erection of a building and actually supervises its erection, and one who in the role of a bricklayer or carpenter actually performs a manual service."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“" 'The language of our statute is general in its terms, and, in our opinion, embraces all persons who perform 'any labor' We are unable to draw the distinction between one who puts his labor into plans for the erection of a building and actually supervises its erection and one who in the role of a bricklayer or carpenter actually performs a manual service [citation omitted].... The architect who superintends the construction of a building performs labor as truly as the carpenter who frames it, or the mason who lays the walls, and labor of a most important character. It is not any the less labor within the general meaning of the word, that it is done by a person who is fitted by special training and skill for its performance. The language quoted makes no distinction between skilled and unskilled labor, or between mere manual labor and the labor of one who supervises, directs, and applies the labor of others. [citation omitted] " 44 N.E.2d at 197 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is generally held that enforcement of a claim for supervisory labor in the construction of property is permitted under mechanic's lien statutes in most jurisdictions, and Indiana follows the majority rule in this regard. The reasoning of the court in the foregoing case is that "one who labors with body or mind, or both, is a laborer" and held that an architect who drew plans and specifications and did supervision of the construction was a laborer under the lien statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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