Ternes v. Westberg’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1988
3 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 Northwestern Lumber & Wrecking Co. v. Parker · Aaby v. Better Builders, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An honest mistake does not defeat the hen under the above statutory provision nor does the mere failure to prove items claimed in the hen statement. Before a hen claimant may be deprived of his hen under this statute there must be some showing of fraud, bad faith, or an intentional demand for an amount in excess of that due.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bierlein v. Gagnon““* * * jn no case a lien exist for a greater amount than the sum claimed in the hen statement, nor for any amount, if it be made to appear that the claimant has knowingly demanded in the statement more than is justly due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bierlein v. Gagnon
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.