Meyer v. Berlandi’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Ferry v. Ramsey (1928), Title Guarantee Co. v. Wrenn (1899)
50 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Hammond v. Danielson · Laird v. Moonan · Smith v. Stevens · Croskey v. Northwestern Manufacturing Co. · State v. Pulle
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is fundamental that they can only be created by his consent or authority, lío man can. be deprived of his property without his consent, except by due process of law. The basis of the right to enforce a claim as a lien against property is the consent of the owner, and it is upon this principle alone that laws giving liens to subcontractors are sustained.””
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.