Milligan v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1987
4 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 Wheaton v. Trimble · Rust-Owen Lumber Co. v. Holt · Collins v. Megraw · Leisse v. Schwartz · Schmidt v. Joseph
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A mechanics’ lien is a creature of statute, and in order to obtain such lien the requirements of the statute must be complied with. A builder can not have a lien simply by erecting a building on the land of another, independent of contract. The work must be done ‘by virtue^of a contract with the owner or his authorized agent.’ * * *””
1 later decision 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.