Ross v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1990
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.
Relationships
Relies on 126 W. Va. 858 - Laundry Co. v. Dunn Hospital · Jolley v. Puregro Company · Mitchell v. Flandro · Ivie v. Peck · Layrite Products Company v. Lux
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.
“[a]lthough the rule may be different with regard to a description which is merely loose, vague, or ambiguous, where the real property description in a mechanic's lien claim notice is `unambiguously erroneous' and describes with exactitude the wrong parcel of real property, substantial compliance is not achieved, and the claim of lien is invalid.”
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.