Zehner v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2015
11 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 Sohn v. Jervis
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The lien of a mechanic, under our statute, relates to the time when the work for which the lien is claimed was commenced, or to when the first material for which the lien is claimed was furnished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mortgage was executed and recorded long before the work was done and material furnished for which [Zehner] prosecutes this action.”
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.