Benbow v. James Johns’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1938
6 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 The Siren · Smith v. Oregon Short Line Ry. Co. · City of Salem v. Lane & Bodley Co. · Hill v. La Crosse · Kirkwood v. Hoxie
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person having a demand as aforesaid, instead of proceeding for the recovery thereof against the master, owner, agent, or consignee of the boat or vessel, may, at his option, commence an action against such boat or vessel by name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cordrey v. Steamship““The lien is created by the law, and attaches as soon as the labor or material is furnished and is not dependent on any subsequent condition, expressed or implied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Auld v. Starbard
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.