129 Ind. App. 1 - Grimm v. Rhoades’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . the mechanic’s lien law of this state creates new rights of purely statutory origin. The statutes providing for the lien and its enforcement are in derogation of the common law and must be strictly construed and anyone who seeks their benefit must bring himself within their provisions. Puritan Engineering Corp. v. Robinson, Tr. (1934), 207 Ind. 58 , 191 N. E. 141 ; Watson v. Strohl (1943), 220 Ind. 672 , 46 N. E. 2d 604 ; Shipman Exr. v. Shipman Gdn. (1934), 99 Ind. App. 445 , 192 N. E. 849 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 145 Ind. App. 286 - Aetna Glass Corp. v. Mercury Builders, Inc. · 133 Ind. App. 204 - DEMMA v. Forbes Lumber Co.

2. ““Any person having such lien may enforce the same by filing his complaint in the circidt or superior court of the county where the real estate or property on which the lien is so taken is situate, at any time within one [1] year from the time when said notice has been received for record by the recorder of the county; or, if a credit be given, from the expiration of the credit, and if said lien shall not be enforced within the time prescribed by this section, the same shall be null and void. If said lien be foreclosed as herein provided, the court rendering judgment shall order the sale to be made, and the officers making the sale shall sell the property, without relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.” (Our emphasis)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 133 Ind. App. 204 - DEMMA v. Forbes Lumber Co.