Stetson-Post Mill Co. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably 89 Wash. 2d 245 - W. T. Watts, Inc. v. Sherrer (1977), Oregon Lumber & Fuel Co. v. Nolan (1914)
3 district · 26 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 Otis v. . Dodd · Home Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Burton · Cornell v. . Barney · Z. C. Miles Co. v. Gordon · Kremer v. Walton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And the lessors do further grant to the lessee the privilege to build on the premises described a brick building, the same to conform in kind and quality of material and dimensions of walls and construction of partitions to the ordinance of the city of Seattle known as the building ordinance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newell v. Vervaeke““. . . that she [the lessee] was obligated to build at all, a building costing $100 would meet the requirements of the lease as well as a building which would cost $100,000.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newell v. Vervaeke““Thai, if such person (referring to the builder) own less than a fee simple in such land, then only his interest therein is subject to the lien.””
1 later decision 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.