Taylor v. Rigby’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2002
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. · Cont'nal Natl. Bk. of Ft. Worth v. Conner · Davidson v. Clearman · Perkins v. Crittenden · University Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Security Lumber Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here there is ... a debt secured by a lien, the lien is an incident of and inseparable from the debt. When one sues on the debt, the lien is thereby necessarily implicated, and both must be put in issue. If the lien is not put in issue, it is abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Mechanics, artisans, and materialmen of every class, shall have a lien upon the buildings and articles made or repaired by them for the value of their labor done thereon, or material furnished therefor;”
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.