Bardwell v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1992
11 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 Laird v. Moonan · Tell v. Woodruff · Nelson v. Sykes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although we have sometimes spoken, perhaps without strict accuracy, of the filing of the lien statement as creating the lien, yet it is merely the means of preserving and perfecting it. It is the performance of the work or the furnishing of the material which, under the statute, gives the right to a lien; and the provisions of the law as to filing the statement are merely remedial in their nature, a change in which works no alteration in the owner’s contract, and gives no right to a lien where one did not exist before, but merely provides a somewhat different form of procedure for its preservation and enforcement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson
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.