Goodro v. Tarkey’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Keeley Lumber and Coal Co. v. Dunker (1956), Newport Sand & Gravel Co. v. Miller Concrete Construction, Inc. (1992)
4 district · 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Freeman v. Alderson · Woodruff v. Taylor · Brace & Hergert Mill Co. v. Burbank · Caltrider v. Isberg
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such-lien is a security interest in the nature of a mortgage, available at law, effecting a preference. It provides for an equity of redemption and runs against the property. The defendant in such a case is not chargeable, as the debtor, but in- his capacity as owner of the property.” Woodbury Lumber. Co., Inc. v. McIntosh and Abare, 125 Vt. 154, 155 , 211 A.2d 240 . “If the plaintiff obtains judgment the r.ecord thereof must contain a brief statement of the contract upon which it is founded. There is no provision for the issuance of execution on the judgment and the only way in which the plaintiff can avail himself thereof, under the lien law, is by causing a certified copy of such record to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the' town in which such property to be affected' is situated. Thereupon, such property becomes holden for the amount due on such judgment with costs of such 'copy and recording the same, as if it had been mortgaged for the payment thereof, and the plaintiff may obtain possession and foreclose the defendant’s equity of redemption.” Goodro v. Tarkey, 112 Vt. 212, 216 , 22 A.2d 509 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) A person who by virtue of a contract or agreement, either in writing or parol, with an agent, contractor or subcontractor of the owner thereof, performs labor or furnishes materials for erecting, repairing, moving or altering such improvements shall have a lien, to secure the payment of the same upon such improvements and the lot of land upon which the same stand, by giving notice in writing to such owner or his or her agent having charge of such property that he or she shall claim a lien for labor or material. Such lien shall extend to the portions of the contract price remaining unpaid at the time such notice is received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since the form of an action may be the same regardless of whether it seeks a judgment in personam or in rem [citing cases] what we have said above does not contradict the holding in Piper v. Hoyt, supra, to the effect that a lien claimant who was in privity with the owner of the property — as he had to be under the then existing law — and who failed to meet a requirement of the lien law in bringing his action might obtain a personal judgment therein, but the action would be ineffective for the purpose of enforcing the lien.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Clapper
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.