Boyd v. Ghent’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1954
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.
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.
““It seems to us that, since this article fixes the period during which the lien shall continue, a party who asserts it in an action must show that it has not ceased to exist at the time he brings his suit. Otherwise he shows no existing lien. It is not a statute which limits the period in which an action shall be brought, and therefore we are inclined to the opinion that it is not necessary for a defendant who resists such lien to plead the statute specially.””
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.