Dix v. Willfred Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1984
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 Smith v. Newbaur · Premier Steel Co. v. McElwaine-Richards Co. · Patton v. Matter
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Separate and distinct transactions, with their separate and distinct purchases for separate and distinct purposes of necessity, involved separate and distinct contracts, express or implied. Under such circumstances the rule as expressed in 27 Cyc 144, that: ‘Where labor or materials are furnished under separate contracts, even though the contracts are between the same persons and relate to the same building or improvement, the contracts cannot be tacked together so as to enlarge the time for filing a lien for what was done or furnished under either, but a lien must be filed for what was done or furnished under each contract within the statutory period after its completion,’ must prevail. With this well-established rule before us, we are constrained to hold that the court did not err in its conclusions of law.””
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.