Lean v. Givens’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1979
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Payne & Dewey v. Treadwell · Summerville v. Stockton Milling Co. · Blood v. Light · Dam v. Zink · Lubbock v. McMann
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We conclude that by this levy a lien is imposed on the property conditionally, to become absolute in the event that it is determined in the proceeding that an excess exists, and that a purchaser after the levy takes subject to the lien.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The common law is in force in this state except as modified by statute, or the constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Klein v. Klein
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.