Wallace v. Brumback’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably W. T. Jones and Company, Incorporated, and Noland Company, Inc., and Marvin Moseley v. Foodco Realty, Inc., and United States of America (1963), American Standard Homes Corp. v. Reinecke (1993)
5 federal appellate · 48 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 Sherbondy v. Tulsa Boiler & MacHinery Co. · Cain v. Rea · Feuchtenberger v. Williamson, Carroll & Saunders · Coleman v. Pearman · Miller v. Barroll
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[kjnowledge ... of the construction of the building can not take the place of the statutory requirements. For the very existence and continuation of the lien, as well as the jurisdiction of the court to enforce it, rest upon compliance with the statute and not upon equitable principles.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“owner of the property sought to be charged ----”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that the mechanic’s lien is to be indexed in the general index of deeds is a plain indication that (a lienor) is to be placed in the same category as a purchaser or deed of trust creditor . . . (upon whom) the law places . . . (the) duty ... to ascertain the names of the "owner of the property sought to be charged ----" id. at 45 , 12 S.E.2d 805 .”
3 later decisions 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.