31 Del. Ch. 188 - Maull v. Strokes’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2009
19 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 Kirby v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad · Kane v. Bloodgood · Glanding v. Industrial Trust Co. · State v. Tabasso Homes, Inc. · Theisen v. Hoey
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“person furnishing labor or materials to a contractor for the construction of any building may procure liens on the property for any unpaid amounts due from the contractor, though the debts were created without the owner's knowledge and the contractor has been paid the full agreed price.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.