21 Ariz. App. 30 - Fields v. Steyaert’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2015
2 district · 12 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 Lakin Cattle Company v. Engelthaler · Fishback v. Foster · Bayham v. Fields
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The towing company’s] position in this case is made further untenable by [its] treatment of the automobile as “aban doned” and [its] subsequent sale under the Arizona statute relative to abandoned vehicles. Obviously this was not an abandoned automobile; once [plaintiff] was informed of the location of his automobile he made a demand for possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Proprietors of garages, repair and service stations shall have a lien upon motor vehicles of every kind, and the parts and accessories placed thereon, for labor, materials, supplies and storage for the amount of the charges, when the amount of the charges is agreed to by the proprietor and the owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Currie v. Dooley
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.