Ward v. Nolde’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Peters v. Dona (1936), Green Quarries, Inc. v. Raasch (1984)
58 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 Dougherty-Moss Lumber Co. v. Churchill · Winslow Bros. v. McCully Stone Mason Co. · Deardorff v. Everhartt · McGuinn v. Federated Mines & Milling Co. · McNamara v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘for whose immediate use, enjoyment or benefit any building, erection or improvement shall be made’ is not intended as a limitation upon the person who is an ‘owner’ as that word is ordinarily understood, but the phrase is undoubtedly used to include persons who would not be considered owners in the ordinary acceptance of that term. In other words, the use of the phrase in the statute is for the purpose of enlarging rather than that of limiting the ordinary definition of the word ‘owner.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters v. Dona““Every person, including all cestuis que trust, for whose immediate use, enjoyment or benefit any building, erection or improvement shall be made, shall be included by the words ‘owner or proprietor’ thereof under this article,” etc.,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a tenant as such is not the agent of the owner so as to establish a lien against the land of the owner for improvements made by the tenant;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masterson v. Roberts
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.