Lebo v. Dochen’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2006
2 federal appellate · 6 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 First National Bank v. Lyon-Gray Lumber Co. · 62 Tex. Civ. App. 647 - Beilharz v. Illingsworth · Bullard v. Norton · Texas Glass & Paint Co. v. Crowdus · Nichols v. Dixon
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But no owner or proprietor shall in any case be required to pay, nor his property be liable for any money that he may have paid to the contractor before the fixing of the lien or before he has received written notice of the existence of the debt, and all subcontractors, laborers, and material men shall have preference over other creditors of the principal contractor or builder.” Id. (emphasis added). 11 . The Bankruptcy Act of 1867 law was finally repealed in 1878 by a bill sponsored by Senator McCreary, of Kentucky, who described the 1867 Act as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Art. 5464 provides a preference only for subcontractors, laborers and materialmen who have liens... The Act deals exclusively with liens. It does not purportedly put mechanics, etc. in a preferred class of creditors except as they may comply with the procedure for establishing a lien.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all subcontractors, laborers and materialmen ... have preference over other creditors of the principal contractor or builder.”
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.