Frederick v. Goodbee’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably State Ex Rel. Malott v. Board of County Commissioners (1930), Bayard v. Baldwin Lumber Co. (1925)
48 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 St. Paul v. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co. · South Louisiana Land Co. v. Riggs Cypress Co. · Ramos Lumber & Mfg. Co. v. Sanders · Cole v. Thompson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law contemplates that the corporeal possession of the thing should be accompanied by external and public signs, announcing the possessor’s intention to preserve the possession of the thing, as the keeping up of roads and levees, the payment of taxes, the erection of works, and other similar acts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crain v. Graves
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.