Rosser v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably American Standard Homes Corp. v. Reinecke (1993), Woodington Electric, Inc. v. Lincoln Savings & Loan Ass'n (1989)
51 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 Sergeant v. Denby · Weaver v. Harland Corp. · Clement v. Adams Bros.-Paynes Co. · PIC Construction Co. v. First Union National Bank of North Carolina · Pairo v. Bethell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mechanic’s lien is purely a creature of statute; it must have its foundation in a contract, with which it must correspond. Sergeant et ux. v. Denby et al., 87 Va. 206, 208 , 12 S.E. 402 (1890). Being in derogation of the common law, the statutes relating to the existence and perfection of a mechanic’s lien are strictly construed. Clement v. Adams Bros. - Paynes Co., 113 Va. 547, 552 , 75 S.E. 294, 296 (1912). (Emphasis in original.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person providing labor or materials for the installation of streets, sanitary sewers or water lines for the purpose of providing access or service to the individual lots in a development... shall have a lien on each individual lot in the development for that fractional part of the total cost of labor or materials as is obtained by using “one” as the numerator and the number of lots as the denominator....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) All persons performing labor or furnishing materials of the value of fifty dollars or more, for the construction, removal, repair or improvement of any building or structure permanently annexed to the freehold . . . shall have a lien, if perfected as hereinafter provided, upon such building or structure, and so much land therewith as shall be necessary for the convenient use and enjoyment thereof.”
2 later decisions 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.