Kellogg v. Howes’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably McClain v. Hutton (1900), Roystone Co. v. Darling (1915)
40 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 Giant Powder Co. v. San Diego Flume Co. · Bowen v. Aubrey · Renton v. Conley · Southern California Lumber Co. v. Schmitt · Dore v. Sellers
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No payment made prior to the time when the same is due . . . shall be valid for the purpose of defeating, diminishing or discharging any lien in favor of any person except the contractor; but as to such liens, such payments shall be deemed as if not made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be deemed to have been done and furnished at the personal instance of the owner”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. Hutton
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.