Toop v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Pascual v. Greenleaf Park Land Co. (1927), Fyfe v. . Sound Development Co. (1923)
2 district · 45 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedToop v. Smith
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Roberts · Jackson ex dem. Saunders v. Cadwell · Mahley v. . German Bank · Darrow v. . Morgan · Guenther v. . Amsden
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It may be that if the specifications and drawings mentioned in the notice had been attached to the latter, there would have been a substantial compliance with the statute, but it seems to us there can be no doubt that a mere general reference to specifications and drawings that may not even be in existence at the time of filing the notice of lien cannot be a sufficient compliance with the subdivision of the statute under'discussion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.