Rollin v. . Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Springer v. Kroeschell (1896), Schmalz v. . Mead (1891)
1 federal appellate · 25 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lien under statutes of this character is, in general, a personal right given to the mechanic, materialman and laborer, for his pwn protection, and the right to create it cannot be assigned or transferred to another (Daubigny v. Duval, 5 Term, 604; Caldwell v. Lawrence, 10 Wis. 332 ; Pearsons v. Tincker, 36 Me. 384 ), unless the assignment is made for the benefit of the assignor, and to be held as his agent, So that the lien may be preserved (Urquehart v. McIver, 4 Johns. 103 ; McCombie v. Davies, 7 East. 5). The statute, under which the plaintiff claims, does not authorize a lien to be filed by the assignee of a debt for work performed under a building contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Chase
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.