Christenson v. Behrens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Thus, this is a case in which owners who paid their contractor in full for all work done upon their property are faced with lien claims based upon * * * (mechanics’ and materialmen’s lien statutes) which seek to compel them to pay again for the work — this time to the subcontractors through the imposition of liens. We are aware of nothing in the form of equities which exerts a gravitational pull toward the position of any party and are satisfied that the issues must be resolved according to the bleak letter of the statute * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tabet Lumber Company v. Baughman