Fitzgerald v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1971
1 federal appellate · 17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lien given by the statute against such building or improvement, and, the lot on which it is situated, is for the work and labor done on, and the materials furnished for, that particular building or improvement, and not for work done and materials furnished for the building- or improvement upon any other lot; and only that building and lot are to be charged for the lien for which such materials were furnished, and on which such labor has been performed.””
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.