Jensen v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1984
5 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 Jensen v. Griffin · Charles Betcher Co. v. Cleveland
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If at the time of contracting, for the material for the new house it was the intention of both husband and wife to erect it for nonhomestead purposes, then the mechanics’ liens attached both to the building and the land upon which it was situated. Chas Betcher Co. v. Cleveland, 13 S.D. 347 , 83 N.W. 366 . If at that time both husband and wife intended that the new house should be their home, then the liens never attached to either building or land (Pol.Code, § 3228), unless acts of estoppel be proven, which respondent has the burden of showing.”
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.