McDaniel v. Osborn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"There is no intent manifest in the title, or from any language employed in tlie body of tbe statute under consideration, that an employé should have or could acquire a lien upon all the property of his employer on account of general manual or mechanical labor. * * * There is a very clear and marked distinction between a preferred debt and a debt secured by a specific lien. A general debt cannot become superior to another secured by a lien, unless expressly made so by a valid law; and, if a statutory lien is to be created, the language employed should be specific in declaring the fact, as well as the nature, character, and extent of such lien. * * * The obvious purpose of the Legislature in this enactment was to give laborers of the class named in the statute preference in the payment of their claims from the estate of the insolvent employer, in the same sense and to the same extent that preference,is given in the payment of funeral expenses under the statute for the administration of decedents’ estates.” -”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schmidtman v. Atlantic Phosphate & Oil Corp.