Phillips v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1987
8 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 In Re the Estate of Burke · Gloucester Water Supply Co. v. City of Gloucester · Christman v. Salway · James A. C. Tait & Co. v. Stryker · Pilz v. Killingsworth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those mentioned in the statute obtain a lien when the two following circumstances have taken place: (1) they have performed work or have supplied materials; and (2) have filed the required lien notice. Until these two developments have occurred, the lien defined by the statute has not been created. 9 P.2d at 494 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Every mechanic * * * contractor * * * and other persons performing labor upon or furnishing material * * * used in the construction * * * of any building ® * * shall have a lien upon the same for the work or labor done * * * or material furnished * * *”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shea v. Graves
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.