Hale v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012
19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Winder v. Caldwell · Aikin v. . Wasson · Balch v. . N.Y. and Oswego Midland R.R. Co. · Jacobs v. Knapp · Ericsson v. Brown
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.
“If the part to be performed by one party consists of several distinct and separate items, and the price to be paid by the other is proportional to each item to be performed, . . . such a contract will generally be held to be severable. But if the consideration to be paid is single and entire, the contract must be held to be entire, although the subject of the contract may consist of several distinct and independent items.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ The legislature could not have intended to exclude these appliances, without which it would be impossible to perform the labor. We have therefore little hesitation in holding that the personal services of the lumberman include the use and the earnings of his own oxen, chain, cant-hook, and his own team and sled, if these are actually used by him, and are essential to the service rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabie v. Sines““ We do not, in this case, go so far as to hold that if the claimant did not labor himself, or if, acting as a common laborer, he loaned the use of his team on the same work, he could successfully claim the benefit of the lien on account of his team.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabie v. Sines
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.