Stephens v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1981
13 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 Coburn v. Stephens · Wells v. Christian · Smith v. Newbaur · Premier Steel Co. v. McElwaine-Richards Co. · Hopkins v. Hudson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are three classes of mechanics’-lien statutes in the United States, and the cases cited by appellants do not relate to the class which has been enacted in Indiana. These classes are: (1) Those which create a lien without regard to any contractual relation with the owner of the building or structure. . . . Our statute must be included in the first class. It does not demand a contract relation with the owner.” Stephens, supra, 41 Ind. App. at 389 , 83 N.E.2d 268 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.