Bassett v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1938
1 federal appellate · 3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing moro can be reasonably required oí the person desiring to fix the lien by Ills registry than to deliver to the officer the sworn account of the demand due him to be filed and recorded. It is no part of his duty to see that the clerk does his by an actual record of it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose being to give notice to third persons of the existence of this lien,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Phillips
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.