McHenry v. McHenry’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1983
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 Potter v. Conley · Lang v. Adams · Gaudreau v. Smith · F. M. Spalding Lumber Co. v. Slusher · Doane v. Bever
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who shall under a contract with the owner of any tract, or piece of land, . . . perform labor or furnish material for the erection, . . . of any building, improvement or structure thereon, or who shall furnish material or perform labor ... in putting up any fixtures or machinery in or attachment to any such building, structure or improvement, . . . shall have a lien . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.