Bennett v. Langdeau’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2002
12 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 Eckert v. Wendel · Mercantile National Bank v. Langdeau · Bland v. Free · Langdeau v. Burke Investment Company · International Harvester Company v. Stedman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary and ultimate purpose of respondent’s suit, insofar as it concerns the land, is to establish that the interests of the defendants are subject to the lien he asserts and to obtain a foreclosure of such lien. An action of this type is not governed by Exception 14_ [Emphasis added.]”
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.