Pilcher v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. ““Our construction of the.act is that it gives a lien to laborers working in or about drilling operations of any oil or gas well on all machinery, tools, equipment, and implements used in such drilling operations, irrespective .of who may own the machinery. The fact that one man’s property may be taken to pay the debt of another does not render the act unconstitutional. In the instant case, according to the undisputed testimony, appellant placed his property in the possession of the lessee, knowing the purpose for which it was to be used by him, and knowing that the statute quoted above gives a lien to laborers for services performed by them in and about the drilling, operations, and he -therefore Voluntarily subjects his property to such liens as are given by the statute. He could have protected himself against the statutory-lien in favor of laborers by requiring hjs lessee to give him a bond to pay the laborers’ claims and to return it to 'him free from such incumbrances. A statute similar to act 513 was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court of California in the cases of Church v. Garrison, 75 Cal. 199 , 16 P. 885 , and Lambert v. Davis, 116 Cal. 292 , 48 P. 123 . Section 1 of the California statute provides that ‘ every person performing work or labor of any kind in, with, about, or upon any threshing machines, the engine, horse-power, wagons, or appurtenances thereof, while engaged in threshing,’ shall have a lien upon same to the extent of the value of his service”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Luster

2. ““Any person or persons working in or about the drilling or operation of any oil or gas well, or any well being drilled for oil or gas, in this State, shall have a lien on the output and production of such oil or gas well for the amount due for such work, and, in addition thereto, his lien shall attach to all machinery, tools, equipment and implements used in such drilling or operation of such oil or gas wells, including all leases to oil or gas rights on the land and upon which such drilling or operations shall be performed. Such lien shall be superior or paramount to any and all other liens or claims of any kind whatsoever, and no contract, sale, transfer or other disposition of said property shall operate to defeat said lien, and said lien shall be enforced in the same manner now provided by law for the enforcement of laborers’ liens. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Luster