Ackerson v. Albuquerque Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1992
14 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 Union Lumber Co. v. Simon · Hot Springs Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Wallace · Weggs v. Kreugel · Powers v. Brewer · Goodrich Lumber Co. v. Davie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nevertheless, the lien is of statutory, not equitable, origin, It depends wholly upon the existence of certain conditions and the performance by the claimant of a prescribed act. The absence of the conditions or the nonperformance of the act leaves equity powerless. The court’s function is not to create a lien. It can only declare and enforce an existing lien.””
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.