Cloninger v. Finlaison’s Empirical Analysis
230 F. 98 · 1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1954
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 McKinley Creek Mining Company v. Alaska United Mining Company · Vogel v. Warsing · Faxon v. Barnard · Washoe Copper Co. v. Junila · Van Buren v. McKinlet
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think, also, that the judgment of nonsuit is sustainable on the ground that the plaintiff failed to show that the power of attorney from the defendant to Taylor was not recorded. We are of the opinion that the location of a mining claim in Alaska under a power of attorney is valid, if the power of attorney is duly recorded at any time before adverse rights accrue, or location is attempted to be made of the same ground by another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutherland v. Purdy
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.