Sommers v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2003
4 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 Murphy v. Williams
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the Murphy Case, supra, our Supreme Court, speaking through Judge Williams, exhaustively reviewed the authorities bearing on the subject and held that the only way that a mechanic’s lien could be fixed on a homestead was by full compliance with the provisions of section 50, article 16 of our state Constitution in the making of the contract, and that one who has not substantially performed his part of such contract cannot maintain an action on the contract for its enforcement, though he may sometimes be allowed to recover upon a quantum meruit. Of course, where the recovery is on a quantum meruit, and not on the contract itself, no foreclosure of the lien can be had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.