McDowell v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2011
10 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 English v. Olympic Auditorium, Inc. · Humboldt Lumber Mill Co. v. Crisp · 60 Cal. App. 749 - Western Well Works, Inc. v. California Farms Co. · S. H. Harmon Lumber Co. v. Brown · 79 Cal. App. 770 - Western Elec. Co., Inc. v. Colley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every contractor ... subdivider or other person having charge or control of the improvement or work on any such lot or parcel of land, either wholly or in part, is the agent of the owner for the purposes of this section, and the owner shall be liable for the reasonable value of ... labor or material furnished at the instance of such agent, upon a lot or parcel of land as prescribed in this section, or any street, alley or proposed street or alley, within, in front of or adjoining such lot or parcel of land.”
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.