Carriger v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2004
12 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 Charlestown School Township v. Hay · Kulp v. Chamberlain
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.
““The objection urged to the complaint is that it fails to show that the action was brought within the time limited by law. “The statute requires that ‘the complaint shall be filed’ in the circuit or superior court, within one year from the time when the notice was received for record in the recorder’s office. . . . The appellants’ counsel misapprehend the language of the statute. It does not require the action to be commenced within a year from the receipt of the notice in the recorder’s office, but, as we have shown, it provides that the complaint shall be filed within that time. . . . We are aware that an action is not properly commenced until a summons has been issued and placed in the hands of the officer for service. . . . Charlestown School Tp. v. Hay, 74 Ind. 127 . As the language of the statute does not require that the action must be commenced within a year from the receipt of the notice, the objection pointed out to the complaint is not well taken. Nor is there any merit in the contention that the complaint is fatally defective because it fails to show when the notice to hold a lien was received in the recorder’s office. . . . The complaint is sufficient to withstand the assignment of error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.