Bell v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 federal appellate · 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 Davis v. Bartz · Nixon v. Cydon Lodge No. 5 · Potter v. Conley · Deming-Colborn Lumber Co. v. Union National Savings & Loan Ass'n · Fossett v. Rock Island Lumber & Manufacturing Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mechanics’ liens, rights acquired under them, and procedure to obtain such rights, were unknown to the common law. . . . They are conferred by statute alone, and one who obtains the benefit of the statute must be within the purview of the statute and pursue his remedy in the manner and within the time prescribed by statute. . . . “. . . ‘A mechanic’s lien not foreclosed within the time allowed by statute is no longer an enforceable lien.’ (Bank v. Backus, 108 Kan. 779 , 196 Pac. 1074 .)” (pp. 218, 219.) (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyce v. Knudson
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.