Rickelton v. Universal Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2011
10 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 United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Sult v. A. Hochstetter Oil Co. · Fancher v. Board of Commissioners · Bumpus v. United States · Brown v. American Bank of Commerce
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.
“I further state that the land applied for herein is essentially non-mineral land, and that this application is not made for the purpose of obtaining title to mineral, including but not limited to caliche, sand and gravel, coal, oil or gas lands fraudulently but with the sole object of obtaining title to the surface of the land applied for. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had no rare or exceptional character and possessed peculiar property giving it special value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prather v. Lyons“[w]hat the Legislature meant to be included as a `mineral' is not well defined in New Mexico”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prather v. Lyons
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.