McCabe v. McRea’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But in this case the plaintiff denies that any notice was given him that he must look to the defendant alone. The statute gives to the laborer a lien. It is for the claimant to prove that he has knowingly surrendered or waived such lien. This the evidence fails to show. It does not even show that the question of an abandonment of lien was distinctly presented for his consideration.” McCabe v. McRea, Ship Empire, and Thompson, 58 Me. 95 , at 99”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. A. C. Paradis Co. v. H. W. Maxim Co.