Chicago Artesian Well Co. v. Corey’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1945
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.
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.
““ This act requires only, in order to create a lien, so far as the agreement of the owner of the land and the mechanic and material man is concerned, that labor or materials should be furnished at the request of the owner of the land, for erecting or'repairing any building thereon, ■when no price is agreed on, or no time is expressly fixed for the payment of such labor and materials, provided that the work is done and materials furnished within one year from the commencement of the work or thq commencement of furnishing materials.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.