Shackleford v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The language of Hie statute is clear, simple, and unambiguous, and whatever may have been the reason for requiring the contractor to file Ms account for recordation, it has prescribed in express, x>lain, and unmistakable language, the way — and the only way — in wMch the purpose it had in view can bo effected. There was no such lien as that provided for by this statute known to the common law or to the courts of equity. It is purely a creation of the statute, and it must be availed of, if at all, upon the terms and conditions which the statute prescribes. The appellant, in his petition for a supersedeas, says: •The statute requires a “true” account, — not an “itemized” account: and an account may be irue, though it be not itemized.’ It is difficult to conceive fiow, without items, there can be an account, which is an itemized or detailed statement of the transactions to which it relates. But the difficulty In this case is not alone that it is not an itemized account, but that it is not an account of the tilings required by the statute, — of -work done and material furnished.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Withrow Lumber Co. v. Glasgow Inv. Co.