Gunter v. Ludlam’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1989
2 district · 15 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.
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.
““Ludlam was in possession of the property as a mortgagor, and had an alienable interest upon which he could create a lien, therefore his construction of the building and the creation of a lien for labor and material was referable to his own interest in the property, and acquiescence on the part of appellants las mortgagees did not constitute such an affirmative act as would operate as an estoppel to the claim of a superior lien. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fine v. Dyke Bros.
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.