Davis v. Bartz’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably 83 Wash. 2d 764 - Curtis Lumber Co. v. Sortor (1974), City Sash & Door Co. v. Bunn (1916)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 Ward v. Yarnelle · Peterson v. Dillon · Powell v. Nolan · Dunphy v. Riddle · 34 Ind. App. 577 - Krotz v. A. R. Beck 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Since the lien expires by force of the statute unless action be commenced within the statutory time, it is necessary to the pleading and proof of a valid lien that the complaint allege and evidence show that the work was done or materials furnished within that time, or the action cannot be maintained. This necessarily results from the wording of the statute, as construed by this court in a number of decisions. Rees v. Wilson, 50 Wash. 339 , 97 Pac. 245 ; Northwest Bridge Co. v. Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., 36 Wash. 333 , 78 Pac. 996 ; ? J”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““No lien created by this chapter binds the property subject to the lien for a longer period than eight calendar months after the claim has been filed unless an action be commenced in the proper court within that time to enforce such lien; . . .””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ny one interested, whether as owner, [or] mortgagee ... has the right to invoke the statute if the action be not commenced as against him within the statutory period.”
4 later decisions 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.