Gilman v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Donohoe Construction Co. v. Mount Vernon Associates (1988), United Masonry, Inc. v. Jefferson Mews, Inc. (1977)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Sergeant v. Denby · Taylor v. Netherwood
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the contract under which the materials are furnished and the work done upon two buildings, erected upon disconnected lots, makes no estimate of the price of the materials furnished and the work done upon each, but provides generally for furnishing material and doing work upon both, it may be, as was held in Sergeant & wife v. Denby,... that the whole sum is a lien upon both buildings, but this cannot be so where an estimate is made or the price fixed for the materials furnished and work done upon each, without disregarding both the letter and the spirit of the mechanic’s lien law,....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The filing of the account is the initial, and one of the most important, steps in the establishment of a mechanic’s lien. A substantial compliance with this provision of the statute has always been regarded as essential to the creation of the lien, and as necessary for the protection of owners, purchasers, and other lien creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall have a lien . . . upon such building or structure, and so much land therewith as shall be necessary for the convenient use and enjoyment thereof . . .”
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.