Dysart v. Youngblood’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1992
18 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 Hot Springs Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Wallace · Lyons v. Howard · 60 Cal. App. 749 - Western Well Works, Inc. v. California Farms Co. · Ford v. Springer Land Ass'n · Albuquerque Foundry & MacHine Works v. Stone
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are accustomed to think of a ‘structure’ as something above ground, in the nature of a building, but this is not necessarily the only meaning of the word. As it is used in our statute, the term is broad and should be construed in connection with the preceding terms which extend the subjects of the statute over a wide range. The authorities are not all in accord in holding a’well to be a ‘structure,’ but the peculiar wording of our statute leads us to conclude that it should be so construed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘We are committed to the doctrine that the mechanics’ lien law, though in derogation of the common law, is remedial in its nature, and is to have a liberal construction.’ * * * ””
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.