Clark v. American Developing & Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Suburban Homes Co. v. North (1914), Cruse v. Clawson (1960)
26 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 Anvil Mining Co. v. Humble · Waterman v. Banks · Anvil Min Co v. Humble · Lawrence v. . Miller · Reddish v. Smith
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.
“There is a decided distinction between an option to purchase, which may be exercised or not by the prospective purchaser, and an absolute contract of sale, wherein one of the parties agrees to sell and the other to buy certain property, the sale to be completed within an agreed time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Enz v. Raelund
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.