Lehman v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2000
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he owners and the bank had a right to rely upon the release of lien executed by [the subcontractor] in making the final disbursements. They did so rely in absolute good faith and in doing so, they closed out the account with the contractor and apparently paid off the remaining lienholders. So far as the owners and the bank were informed, [the subcontractor] had been paid in full and had cancelled the lien....”
2 later decisions 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.