Ragon v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1985
8 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.
““When a vendor, holding the legal title, consents for and directs a vendee to have improvements placed upon the property, with the expectation and intention of putting the legal title in him when the buildings áre completed, if the legal title is thus placed the lien of the mechanic attaches as against both parties. Rollin v. Cross, 45 N. Y. 766 . In Warvelle on Vendors, (volume 1, p. 209, sec. 23) it is said,'in substance, that where a vendor, by his contract of sale, • expressly authorized the vendee to make erections and improvements on the premises, and particularly. if he agrees to advance money to aid in snch improvements, and, before the termination of the contract and notice thereof, a mechanic performs labor or. furnishes material for the erection of buildings on the land, the latter will not be required to look alone to the title held by the vendee, but may enforce his lien against the legal as well as the equitable title. To the same effect is Phillips on Mechanics’ Liens (3d Ed.) see. 69, citing' and commenting on many cases which proceed upon the idea that under such circumstances the party purchasing and in possession is the ‘owner,’ -in the sense of the statute,- and unless he shall be só considered mechanics and ma-terialmen will be defrauded of their liens.” "”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowland v. Lowe““Certainly no principle of .equity or. fair dealing would sanction a precedent of that character. The vendors, by their contract, have subjected their title to the property to the lien of the petitioner; and the decree properly, in our opinion, authorized a sale of the legal title and a priority of payment to the petitioner.” Citing several cases as authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowland v. Lowe
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