Ocala Foundry & Machine Works v. Lester’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2011
1 federal appellate · 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 Allen v. . Fox · Schrandt v. Young · Chauvin v. Valiton · Murray v. Rapley · West v. Flemming
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.
“But when possession has been held for a period of three months the mechanic or laborer has no right under the statute to longer retain the property as against the consent of the debtor. Though the lien still exists, the right to retain possession expires, and upon demand by the debtor he has a right to have the possession. This was not the rule of the common law, but it is the rule under the statute, which expressly limits the right of possession to a period not exceeding three months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There shall be no lien upon personal property as against purchasers and creditors without notice, unless the person claiming the lien be in possession of the property upon which the lien is claimed; in which case the lien as against creditors and purchasers without notice shall continue so long as the possession continues, but not for a period longer than three months after the performance of the labor or the furnishing of the material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally speaking, interest on the Value of the property wrongfully detained is the proper measure of damages in an action of replevin. But where the use of the property is valuable the rule stated does not furnish the plaintiff adequate compensation, and in such cases he is entitled, not to interest on the value, but to the value of the use.”
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.