Sorg v. Crandall’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Frederick Contractors, Inc. v. Bel Pre Medical Center, Inc. (1975), CVN Group, Inc. v. Delgado (2002)
35 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 Paulsen v. Manske · Henderson v. Connelly · Crandall v. Sorg · McDonald v. Rosengarten · Campbell v. Jacobson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think it is true, as contended by Sorg, that submission of the dispute to arbitrators waived the mechanic’s lien. Under our statute the remedy by enforcement of the lien is merely cumulative. If the arbitration had been legally conducted and the award had established that some amount was due Shields & Cook, they could not thereafter, as a matter of course, enforce a lien for any larger amount. But had a lien existed it would not have been affected by such an award except in reference to the amount that could have been collected by its enforcement.””
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.