Mayes v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1958 · most notably Seaboard Surety Co. v. Standard Accident Insurance (1938), American Bonding Co. of Baltimore v. Pueblo Inv. Co. (1906)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parties agreed that Lane (the contractor) was to draw 85 per cent, of the contract price for the purpose of paying his accounts for material and labor, and it may be added here that the church (the owner) was under no obligation to see to the application of the 85 per cent, to the discharge of such debts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.