Grgic v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2012
9 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 Wadsworth Homes, Inc. v. Woodridge Corporation · Mississippi Woodworking Company v. Maher · S & R Builders & Suppliers, Inc. v. Marler · Bernard v. Merrick · State v. Beverly
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute requires a ‘just and true account’ ‘so that the landowners and others interested may learn from the lien statement what the lien claimant asserts he has furnished, thus permitting an investigation to be made to determine whether the materials actually went into the building; whether they were lienable items, and whether the amount charged is proper.’ Wadsworth Homes, Inc. v. Woodridge Corp., 358 S.W.2d 288, 291 (Mo.App.1962). An ‘original’ contractor may make a ‘just and true account’ if his lien statement simply states his account in a lump sum, without itemization. E.g., Mississippi Woodworking Co. v. Maher, 273 S.W.2d 753, 755 (Mo.App.1954). This lump sum statement is acceptable because the owner contracted with the ‘original’ contractor and, therefore, knows the labor and material to be provided. Id. at 755 . When the lien claimant is a subcontractor, however, the lien statement must be detailed and item-ized_” Grgic v. Cochran, 740 S.W.2d 358, 359-60 (Mo.App.1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It shall be the duty of every original contractor, every journeyman and day laborer, and every other person seeking to obtain the benefit of the provisions of sections 429.010 to 429.340, within six months after the indebtedness shall have accrued to file with the clerk of the circuit court of the proper county a just and true account of the demand due him or them after all just credits have been given, which is to be a lien upon such building or other improvements, and a true description of the property, or so near as to identify the same, upon which the lien is intended to apply, ... (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The landowner has never agreed to pay the subcontractor anything and is not personally indebted to him. It is only by reason of the mechanic’s hen statute that the property may be subjected to the payment of the hen claim. In this situation the hen is not necessarily for the contract price but is only for the reasonable value of the labor and materials furnished.”
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.