Humphrey v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2001
19 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 Andrews v. Morse · Frissell & Johnson v. Haile · Hill v. Brinkley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be, a lawyer’s services in recovering a tract of land by suit are as meritorious as those of a carpenter or mason who builds a house, but the latter had no lien until it was given to them by an express statute. At common law, liens of particular persons, in certain cases, were recognized and enforced, but they were of a kind that attached to an article-in the actual possession of the bailee. If he parted with the possession, the lien, in general, was lost.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Tyson
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.