Conlee v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1990
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 Turner v. Wentworth · Nichols v. Culver · Jeffersonville Water Supply Co. v. Riter · St. Louis National Stock Yards v. O'Reilly · Gordon Hardware Co. v. San Francisco & San Rafael Railroad
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover if the time for filing the lien was extended by the last labor done; this was performed at his [the owner’s] special instance and request, and he must be deemed chargeable with the knowledge of the legal consequences of his own act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rieflin v. Grafton““Defendant cannot' be heard to say that the additional work, done at his -request to complete the contract, was not a continuation of the previous work, ■ and done • under the same contract.” .. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rieflin v. Grafton
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.