In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
May 1986
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Mississippi Highway Commission v. Mosby · Quiver Gin Co. v. Looney · Irwin v. Miller · Duncan v. Jayne
Most-quoted passages
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“Every employee, laborer, cropper, part owner, overseer or manager, or other person who may aid by his labor to make, gather, or prepare for sale or market any crop, shall have a lien on the interest of the person who contracts with him for such labor for his wages, share or interest in such crop, whatever may be the kind of wages or the nature of the interest, which lien such employee, laborer, cropper, part owner, overseer or manager, or other person may offset, recoup or otherwise assert and maintain. Any such lien shall be paramount to all liens and encumbrances or rights of any kind created by or against the person so contracting for such assistance, except the lien of the lessor of the land on which the crop is made, for rent and supplies furnished, ____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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