Bates v. Harte’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Prestwood v. Carlton (1909), Woods v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. (1920)
23 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 Cannon v. Lindsey · Foster v. Johnson · Bickley v. Keenan & Co. · Jones v. Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile Railroad · Davis v. Snider
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute recognizes that improvements meriting the protection of a lien may be made upon land otherwise than by buildings, but, as they may occur in unforeseen variety the scope of the term improvement is left for determination in particular cases as they may arise. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mazel v. Bain
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.