Wilson v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Dua v. Comcast Cable of Maryland, Inc. (2002), Muskin v. State Department of Assessments & Taxation (2011)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Penniman's Case · Watson v. New York Central Railroad · Martin v. Hewitt · Goodbub v. Estate of Hornung · Dashiell v. Mayor of Baltimore
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contract under which the [materialman] parted with his property gave him (aside from the statute) no right to look to the buildings. The owner was not a party to it, and came under no personal obligation to pay him. His right to a lien on the buildings was not a right which sprang either from the obligation or from any of the principles or practices of the common law. It was an extraordinary remedy, the creature of “positive statutory enactment.” When it had been discontinued by the passage of the Act of 1898 all the contractual and common law rights of the parties remained. The [materialman’s] right to bring his action, secure judgment and execution and make sale of [the general contractor’s] property remained unimpaired. [ 91 Md. at 7 [1023].]”
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.