Hewitt v. Truitt’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1981
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the defendants, Klockzin and Simpson, were not the owners, between whom and Truitt the principal contract was made, it is needless to say that notice to them of the claim of lien did not satisfy the statute, although they may have acquired the premises by mesne conveyances from Mrs. Brown prior to the completion of the work. They were indeed, proper parties defendant, under section 3190, Revised Statutes, and if the proper steps had been taken as against Mrs. Brown to establish a lien, it would have been good, as against them; they would have taken the land from Mrs. Brown subject to the incumbrance of the lien, inchoate or otherwise, as the title stood in her. (Italics ours.) [Hewitt v. Truitt, 23 Mo. App. l. c. 447.]”
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.