Fredricks v. Klauser’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1954
7 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 Altoona Quicksilver Mining Co. v. Integral Quicksilver Mining Co. · Hough v. Hunt · Honaker v. Martin · Wright v. Killian
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no machinery or other fixtures of importance at the mines, the preservation of which necessitated a watchman, when the development work had ceased, and, this being so, the worth of the actual labor performed by Arbuckle in endeavoring to increase the world’s wealth by making an honest effort to discover valuable minerals is the only credit to which he is entitled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word ‘improvement,’ as thus used, evidently means such an artificial change of the physical conditions of the earth in, upon, or so reasonably near a mining claim as to evidence a design to discover mineral therein or to facilitate its extraction, and in all cases the alteration must reasonably be permanent in character.””
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.