Fredericks v. Tracy’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 1961 · most notably Lilly-Brackett Co. v. Sonnemann (1910), 14 Cal. 2d 196 - Teater v. Good Hope Development Corp. (1939)
58 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 Affierbach v. McGovern
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The alleged ownership and right of possession in that case was long before the suit brought, while here it is placed at a date only two days prior to the commencement of the action; but this does not alter the principle, which is that the plaintiff must show his ownership and right to possession at the time the action is commenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.