Avery v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably 7 Cal. App. 2d 733 - Pneucrete Corp. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1935), Saslow v. Andrew (1990)
33 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 Baum v. Grigsby · Camden v. Vail · Taylor v. McKinney · Hunt v. Waterman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who sells real property has a vendor’s lien thereon, independent of possession, for so much of the price as remains unpaid and unsecured otherwise than by the personal obligation of the buyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.