Wagar v. Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1947
2 federal appellate · 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The lien is to attach to the contractor's entire interest in the land and its additions made by aid of the contract, but it cannot exceed the interest of the contracting party."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ Conceding it was competent for the company to institute a lien against Webster, and to enforce it, under the statute, and still it is evident that the proceedings were required to be confined to his equity, and to be subject to Briscoe's rights."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ And the same enactments * * * establish the fact that no lien can be induced on any man's ownership, except on the basis of his own indebtedness, and can then be extended no further than his ownership extends."”
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.